--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sparaig wrote: <snip> > >Should President GW Bush be allowed to violate a law set by > >Congress if it is ruled a constitutional law? > > > >Yes, no, not sure. > > > >If the answer to the first question was yes, answer this question: > >If she is elected president, should President Hillary Rodham > >Clinton be allowed to violate the law in the first question? > > > >Yes, no, not sure. > > > No.
I pointed out earlier that the risk with warrantless wiretapping is that the administration can then have NSA wiretap anybody they want, terrorist or not. I was amused to see the Hillary Clinton argument being made by Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News's resident legal expert, in a discussion with Bill O'Reilly on The Radio Factor, with reference to President Hillary Clinton. Here's the transcript: O'REILLY: ...The country's coming down 60-40, basically saying we want to be protected, we do not feel our rights are being violated by the NSA eavesdropping or the [USA] Patriot Act. NAPOLITANO: Would you feel this way if Hillary [Clinton] were president? O'REILLY: Yeah. NAPOLITANO: Because then, you know, the pro-life and the pro-gun will -- they'll be targets of warrantless searches. O'REILLY: No, but -- not unless they're dealing -- NAPOLITANO: And maybe conservative commentators will be targets of warrantless searches. O'REILLY: Not unless we're dealing with Al Qaeda, correct? Aren't I correct? NAPOLITANO: If she has to go to a judge, like FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act], she'd have to demonstrate the connection to Al Qaeda. If she doesn't have to go to a judge, she can pick whoever she wants. http://mediamatters.org/items/200601130008 Generally speaking, the left would trust President Hillary Clinton not to abuse warrantless wiretapping, but not Bush; and the right would trust Bush but not Hillary. The point is: If you don't trust *both* of them, you can't let *either* of them do it. For takedowns of media distortion of the NSA program, see the list on this page and following: http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/domestic_spying To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
