John Eastman, director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and Professor of Law for the Claremont Institute, has written a letter to Chairman Sensenbrenner of the House Judiciary Committee, about the terrorist surveillance by the National Security Agency: "Under the Constitution, confirmed by two centuries of historical practice and ratified by Supreme Court precedent, the President clearly has the authority to conduct surveillance of enemy communications in time of war and of the communications to and from those he reasonably believes are affiliated with our enemies." (link here)
This letter (with references) reaffirms the Constitutionality of the President's authority to wiretap the communications of foreign nationals that are of interest to the United States. Further reading into this subject by searching on Google & looking at the law libraries of various universities also support this position. Also, please note that the Constitution of the United States did not have rights to privacy nor does it grant rights to foreign nationals.
The furor of the media is nothing more than a smoke screen to continue the harassment of the Bush administration. For those of us with longer memories than the average person, President Clinton used the same arguements for the use of the NSA's Echelon program during his administration. May I ask the media - where was your outrage then?
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Could you imagine how the lefties in the press and congress would have played this if another terrorist attack had happened and all that could have stopped it was a breach of a civil right? These parasites would have been all over bush as if he was Cheney on a friendly bird hunt.
Where was their outrage with Filegate, for that matter?
Somehow, the left adds all kinds of "constitutional" protctions, and then on top of that, decides those rights extend globally to our enemies.
Great post, Tom.
It often seems to me that history didn't start until the day Bush was inaugurated in 2001.
Either that or Democrats have mass amnesia when it comes to Clinton's efforts, weak as they were, to tackle terrorists through surveillance.
The History Channel had a documentary on the 9/11 Commission Report. There was Jamie Gorelick, former Clinton Deputy Attorney General describing her shock that the CIA and FBI couldn't share the information to track down the terrorists.
I guess I can understand why she would prefer to forget her own role in causing that lapse.
Are you actually suggesting that Ms. Gorelick KNEW about the wall that prevented the CIA and FBI from sharing information? I don't believe it! It's not like she was trying to protect President Clinton from any investigations stemming from Chinese money or the people that gave it to him.
Yeah, another manufactured non-event by the perpetually outraged media. Well, outraged if it involves Republicans. They're blind to anything the Democrats do.
I've been in outright flame war with a member of the media over Cheney for several days. It gets tiresome.
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