[antimedia] antimedia: Once again, the Bush administration has made....

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Posted by antimedia:
Once again, the Bush administration has made....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1169068100.shtml


   ....[1]a serious mistake, caving in to political pressure and placing
   the NSA surveillance program under FISA court supervision. There never
   was any doubt the program was legal, but now the President has ceded
   additional authority that belonged exclusively to his office. Future
   Presidents will be hard pressed to regain the authority once the
   precedent is set. That President would have the authority of the
   Constituion on his or her side, but the political pressures would be
   enormous.
   This is a mistake at any time, but especially in a time of war. Its
   only a matter of time before the court rejects an application that
   then becomes a cause celebre' for those who say the government cannot
   protect us when the actor excused by the court is involved in a
   terrorist attack on our soil. The court will not be held accountable.
   The President will.
   Just as in the case of the Campaign Finance Reform Act, President Bush
   has manifested a tone-deaf ear to the importance of precedent and
   history. And the Constitution has become even more irrelevant and
   exposed to additional rapacious violations.
   If this country is to survive, it's people must replace their
   emotional reactions to obsequious political rhetoric with a steely
   logic that pierces the veil of lies that surround our present
   institutions. We cannot long continue to allow these Constitutional
   depredations before arriving at a place from which we can never
   return.
   I get a big chuckle out of the EU which cackles about our "privacy
   violations" while putting cameras on every street corner and recording
   voices as well. The idiots here in America who whine and wail about
   privacy don't have a clue what real privacy violations are. If we
   continue to destory the Constitution, however, they may soon find out.

References

   1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/domestic_spying