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Recently, DoJ lawyers from the preceeding three adminstrations (Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Clinton) have made essentially the same case in national newspapers, as did the current five-page DoJ briefing issued this past week.

Every President from the time the telephone was invented up until Carter in 1978 had the unrestrained power to run warrantless wiretaps for national security reasons until FISA, and every adminstration since FISA was passed has said that it retains the inherent constitutional right to run warrantless searches without FISA involvement if they so desire.

That is why the charges of the NSA wiretaps being unconstitutional are so laughable. No court has ever even challeged the President’s ability to issue such an order, and Congress overstepped their bounds in issuing FISA in ‘78.

Bush is simply the first President that will be forced to take on the issue of FISA head-on.

FISA itself is likely to be struck down as unconstitutionally infringing upon the executive branch as a separation of powers issue, and the far left is going to bury themselves politically, cheering, as it were, for the terrorists, and against the nation in the eyes of John Q. Moderate.

With this knowledge in hand, you might begin to understand why Bush, while angry about the leaks and the NY Times revealing national security information, doesn’t appear to be at all worried about his future.

He’s going to come out of this vindicated, the Executive Branch will finally reassert a power it has always legally had, Congress will get the wrist-slap for its overbearing ego it deserves, terrorists will remain in jail (or dead), the NSA program of finding and identifying terrorists and keeping Americans safe will go on, and the MSM and the politcal far left, foaming at the mouth the entire time (to be sure) will render themselves even more irrelevant.

If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny.

Where did you get this info?

To the Editor,
Once again you run a front page article on the wire tap program without ever mentioning that every administration since Roosevelt has done the same thing without your self righteous indignation being displayed as it is now. Clinton’s own Justice Department officials acknowledge he did in a time of peace and it is perfectly legal. We are at war with people who took down the towers and will do it again. You and your Post buddies are now aiding in their defense. They are filing civil cases against the President? You must be so proud.
Sincerely,
William Smith
960 Greenview Dr.
Asheboro, NC 27205
336-369-0330