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Article: TAP DANCE CRITICS SAY PRESIDENT BUSH'S DOMESTIC WIRETAPPING VIOLATES THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT. SUPPORTERS SAY PUTTING LIMITS ON PRESIDENTIAL POWER TO FIGHT TERROR INCREASES THE RISK OF ANOTHER SEPT. 11. AND THE PRESIDENT INSISTS SPYING OF THIS NATURE IS HIS CALL AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF. SO WHO'S RIGHT? PRESIDENT EXERCISED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY.(FORUM)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2006
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Byline: ROBERT F. TURNER
An impeachment charge would make far more sense had President Bush failed to authorize the National Security Agency to intercept the electronic communications of suspected al-Qaida terrorists abroad.
To exclude such communications anytime our terrorist enemies included a permanent resident alien on an e-mail distribution list would represent the height of folly -- unnecessarily placing at risk countless American lives.
No one is asserting the president is above the law, but as Chief Justice John Marshall declared in Marbury v. Madison, "a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law."
Congress may ...