Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Assigned Reading
This article by Victoria Toensing at The Weekly Standard is today's required reading.

It is the clearest, most concise, and most reasonable thing I have read on the NSA foreign wiretapping business.

Don't miss this.

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In Article II, the Constitution establishes the president as commander in chief. As such he has inherent authority to conduct warrantless surveillance for the purpose of acquiring foreign intelligence information. He does not have the authority to close banks, seize steel mills, or raise our taxes; he does have it to get battlefield information about an enemy who has killed thousands of us on our soil and threatens to do so again.

No court opinion denies this constitutional authority to the president. All federal appellate courts that have considered the issue, including the FISA appeals court, have recognized such authority. The Supreme Court, over three decades ago, emphatically specified in the Keith case that it would leave this issue to another day. In doing so, the Court provided a clear indication that foreign surveillance is not domestic surveillance.

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Read the entire thing.
posted by Phoenix | 10:54 AM


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