Posted on 02/10/2006 6:05:52 AM PST by conservativecorner
Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has escaped! Only the dimmest bulb in the terrorist world would use a cell phone to discuss sensitive plans since the fact that such calls are not private has been so widely presented in the press.
Why are we allowing this "secret" court rule on this - who is on this court? This is pure BS and I, for one, am sick of it.
It's time for Frist to yank his butt off the judiciary committee.
Pennsylvania Republicans, contact this Scot and tell him to shove his legislation, but say it in a polite way. How 'EFFING RIDICULOUS is it that the President has to ask permission of any judge to find a kill terrorists? Completely out of line. The judges are not the ones who will be going before the cameras when another terrorist attack happens. They are not charged with finding terrorists and killing them--our Commander in Chief has that job! He must be the one who determines how to do that job.
The Judicial branch is not a creature of the Legislative branch that reports to the Congress upon demand.
When people get their law degrees, they leave any common sense behind......if they had it in the first place!
Bush and Santorum both kissed his ass,...now they pay the price!Scottish Law! Scottish Law! Scottish Law! Ira Einhorn lives! Can't God throw a lightning bolt at this twerp!
The Speck is betting the President will just give up authority without a battle like Carter did.
Never mind, Senator Specter, there will be no need. All phone traffic from terrorists has been stopped, due to the Democrats, the media, and people like you.
Thanks alot!!
BINGO BUMP!
"I have been a Specter-watcher for some years now, and I have long since come to the conclusion that he is not a clear thinker on matters constitutional."
Sounds like a good conclusion to me...
He's not a clear thinker period.
Excerpts from a letter to the Senate "Intelligence" Committee by the Asst. Atty. General.....
Under Article II of the Constitution, including in his capacity as Commander in Chief, the President has the responsibility to protect the Nation from further attacks, and the Constitution gives him all necessary authority to fulfill that duty. See, e.g., Prize Cases, 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635, 668 (1863)
("[T]he Prize Cases . . . stand for the proposition that the President has independent authority to repel aggressive acts by third parties even without specific congressional authorization, and courts may not review the level of force selected."); id. at 40 (Tatel, J., concurring). The Congress recognized this constitutional authority in the preamble to the Authorization for the Use of Military Force ("AUMF") of September 18, 2001, 115 Stat. 224 (2001)
This constitutional authority includes the authority to order warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance within the United States, as all federal appellate courts, including at least four circuits, to have addressed the issue have concluded. See, e.g., In re Sealed Case, 310 F.3d 7 17, 742 (FISA Ct. of Review 2002)
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