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Originally Posted by P_Funk
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...a&pageNumber=2
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Critics charge Bush's warrantless domestic spying program, conducted by the National Security Agency, violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires warrants. Bush said he could act without warrants under wartime powers.
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What I don't understand is how people can buy this "war measures" BS. You can make the propoganda say all that you want, but there is no official declaration of war against any specific party or nation. Thats where war provisions are allowed to function, in a legitimized, legally sanctioned, specifically focused state of conflict.
But there is no war. Theres just a porpoganda campaign. The executive keeps trying to take powers that it hasn't actually received yet.
All I hope is they ding this sucker. Illegal wiretapping is pretty far down the slippery slope methinks.
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I agree. Especially because there were already "Special Courts" set up to issue top secret wiretaps to cover this eventuality. President Bush did not need "War Powers" to issue these wiretaps at all, as he could have used the already in place legal system.
It seems like the Exective Branch trying to make a precedent for amassing more power. I'm really unhappy with both Congress and the Judicial Branch for letting it happen. They were like sheep when this whole thing went down.
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