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In a message dated 1/25/2006 8:22:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net writes:

<Bush  failed to go to the only authority that could make his actions  legal:
<the courts


Of course, if he were wiretapping citizens, you would be correct, but as  the 
specific calls being requested at the time were foreign in nature, and a  
warrant does not have to be obtained for both parties in a conversation, this 
 
was almost certainly legal. If the govt. wants to tap your phone, they cover  
themselves to do so legally, it matters not whom you call. A separate warrant 
is 
 not required.
 
<I've been reading a lot about Lincoln and the Civil War lately  (inspired, I
<guess, by the wonderful new A. Lincoln Presidential Library  and Museum in
<Springfield). The issue of presidential powers in a time of  war were a very
<big issue at the time, particularly after Lincoln set  aside habeas corpus
 
That is a very good choice, Lincoln, during the civil war, disagreed with  
the accusations of a particular paper and ordered them siezed and burned, the 
 
doors locked, and the arrest of the writers, editors, distributors, and Yes,  
even the paperboys if they delivered them.
 
 
<We could all probably do a lot more reading and listening and a lot  less
<spouting off so that we truly understand the 
 
You took the words right out of my mouth