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Spying on who?
You 're right , FW, spying on Americans in general would be a "tough sell." I addressed this elsewhere. Fact is, terror suspects here in the US - just like the September 11 attackers were - are the targets.
posted by
WriterofLight
on December 30, 2005 at 5:32 PM
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Writer....
The Washington Times has information on the court's [osition.....
More recently, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- the secretive judicial system that handles classified intelligence cases -- wrote in a declassified opinion that the court has long held "that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information."
Such warrantless searches have been at the center of a political fight in Washington after the New York Times reported Friday that the Bush administration had a program to intercept communications between al Qaeda suspects and persons in this country, a story whose publication coincided with the congressional debate over reauthorizing the USA Patriot Act.
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Corbin_Dallas
on December 22, 2005 at 8:31 AM
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Spin all you want!
You're going to have a tough sell justifying spying on Americans, especially in the red-state South. You would have made one heck of a minister of propaganda in the old USSR.
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fwmystic
on December 22, 2005 at 12:52 AM
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