From: adykes@panix.com   
      
   In article <1135083669.985690.292520@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,   
   selene1022  wrote:   
   >>From an excellent editorial in today's WSJ:   
   >   
   >"The courts have been explicit on this point, most recently in In Re:   
   >Sealed Case, the 2002 opinion by the special panel of appellate judges   
   >established to hear FISA appeals. In its per curiam opinion, the court   
   >noted that in a previous FISA case (U.S. v. Truong), a federal "court,   
   >as did all the other courts to have decided the issue [our emphasis],   
   >held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct   
   >warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information." And   
   >further that "we take for granted that the President does have that   
   >authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the   
   >President's constitutional power."   
   >   
   >In other words, Bush legally had every right to do exactly what he did.   
   >   
      
      
   The key word here is "foreign".  Bus has just been caught authorizing   
   domestic spying which is legal only with a FISA warrent and Bush did   
   it without one.   
      
   A federal offense.   
      
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