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  • From: DSanner106 AT aol.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] A point of view
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:19:48 EST


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








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