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Liberal silence on FISA opinion

Posted 04 Apr 2006 in liberals

You won’t see much, if anything, about this on DailyKos or Huffington Post. Or hear much in the mainstream media, apparently. (h/t: Expose The Left)

A panel of former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges yesterday told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush did not act illegally when he created by executive order a wiretapping program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA).

The five judges testifying before the committee said they could not speak specifically to the NSA listening program without being briefed on it, but that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does not override the president’s constitutional authority to spy on suspected international agents under executive order.

“If a court refuses a FISA application and there is not sufficient time for the president to go to the court of review, the president can under executive order act unilaterally, which he is doing now,” said Judge Allan Kornblum, magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and an author of the 1978 FISA Act. “I think that the president would be remiss exercising his constitutional authority by giving all of that power over to a statute.”

You can bet we’d see this one all over the evening news and the front pages if these former judges had said the President broke the law.

But you’re not gonna hear this point being discussed by Senator Russ Feingold or Nixon’s former White House counsel John Dean (the charlatans leading the charge to censure President Bush). Nope, these guys are too busy seeking vengeance for Clinton’s impeachment. Sorry, Liberals, just because your guy regularly broke the law doesn’t mean Bush did. Ever hear of projection?

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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