--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/19/06 6:58:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > So, you think that a substantial number of Americans would respond in the > negative to > this question? > > Does the President have the right to conduct wiretaps in the war on terror > as long as he > follows the constitutionally valid laws and procedures set by Congress? > > Yes, no, not sure. > > What about to THIS question? > > SHOULD the President conduct wiretaps in pursuit of the War on Terror as > long as he > follows the constitutionally valid laws and procedures set by Congress? > > Yes, no, not sure. > > > > Presidents always have to follow the law. However the question is, is there > any wiggle room in that law under extraordinary circumstances such as war. The > presidential legal teams think there is. Remember Lincoln suspended Habius > corpus, shut down the Maryland legislature and restricted free speech to some > degree. FDR had people's mail censored and detained Japanese in internment > camps. LBJ had mail censored coming from troops in Vietnam. And I'm certain > there are many more examples of powers that presidents have been able to enact > in times of war for national security.
...and some presidents got blow jobs from interns in the Oval Office. What? You're saying that's a non sequitur? Well, of course it is. But I thought it was a funny thing to bring into the debate anyways. 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/
