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December 22, 2005
December 22, 2005
Imperial powers? (UPDATED)
Powerline’s John Hinderaker has a long and meticulously argued post that agrees in large measure with my earlier post, and with the assessments of Messrs Cass Sunstein, Richard Posner, and Clinton associate attorney general John Schmidt, From “On the Legality of the NSA Electronic Intercept Program”: […] Finally, in 2002, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review decided Sealed Case No. 02-001. This case arose out of a
December 22, 2005
Problematizing the NSA
From the NYT “News of Surveillance Is Awkward for Agency”: At a news conference at the White House on Monday, General Hayden also emphasized that the program’s operations had “intense oversight” by the agency’s general counsel and inspector general as well as the Justice Department. He said decisions on targets were made by agency employees and required two people, including a shift supervisor, to sign off on them, recording “what
December 22, 2005
More NSA analysis. Because really, who can’t get enough of this stuff?
U of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein, on Bush’s NSA program: The discussion of wiretapping by the President, without court approval, raises a number of important and interesting legal issues. According to CNN, Attorney General Gonzales recently said, “There were many people, many lawyers within the administration who advised the president that he had an inherent authority as commander in chief under the Constitution to engage in” this kind of
December 22, 2005
“The War on Christmas Poem”
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me — but I tell her to quick, run and hide!—before the goddamned ACLU and its goddamned lawyers find her and the baby Jesus, and strangle them both right where they fucking stand!
Peter Fonda comments on the leak-driven story about the NSA’s “illegal” domestic “spying” program authorized by the Bush adminstration under AUMF and FISA authorities
Fonda: “All I’ll say on the matter is this: In ‘75 or thereabouts, I had a nice steak dinner with Frank Church, and the shit he laid on me about COINTELPro—the extent, man, to which the government was watching us—made the hair on my nipples stand on end. I mean, would you want Tricky Dick and his kinky First Lady wife getting their freak on to wire taps of Sylvia