Saturday, April 02, 2011

Obama's new view of his own war powers

Obama's new view of his own war powers
Salon ^ | 31 Mar 2011 | Glenn Greenwald
Posted on Saturday, April 02, 2011 4:09:40 PM by Palter
Back in January, 2006, the Bush Justice Department released a 42-page memo arguing that the President had the power to ignore Congressional restrictions on domestic eavesdropping, such as those imposed by FISA (the 30-year-old law that made it a felony to do exactly what Bush got caught doing:  eavesdropping on the communications of Americans without warrants).  That occurred roughly 3 months after I began blogging, and -- to my embarrassment now -- I was actually shocked by the brazen radicalism and extremism expressed in that Memo.  It literally argued that Congress had no power to constrain the President in any way when it came to national security matters and protecting the nation.................................... 


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