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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] The desperation of the administration to find some sort of legal justification for illegal activities is palpable. It showed in this exchange between Senator Grassley and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. In [URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020600931.html]news[/URL] of pre-electronic electronic surveillance: [QUOTE]GRASSLEY: I think that as the American public hears examples of how Democrat presidents and Republican presidents alike have done similar things, they may begin to see this program in a different light, particularly in regard to the president's over 225 years' use of the exercise of the power of commander in chief. GONZALES: I gave in my opening statement, Senator, examples where [b]President Washington[/b], President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance of the enemy on a far broader scale -- far broader -- without any kind of probable cause standard, all communications in and out of the country.[/QUOTE]*Emphasis added. Partial video [URL=http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/06.html#a7043]here[/URL]. Yes, the Attorney General just highlighted George Washington as an example of the Chief Executive engaging in warrentless electronic surveillance. Even allowing for a slip of the tongue regarding George Washington, I suppose it would be pointless to mention to Mr. Gonzales and those like him who are pushing so hard for so large an expansion of presidential prerogatives that all of the presidential surveillance, electronic or otherwise mentioned in his exchange with Senator Grassley came before 1978. During 1978 a law known as the [URL=http://intelligence.senate.gov/statutes.htm]Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)[/URL] was enacted. As a result, none of the pre-1978 presidents were contravening federal law the way that Mr. Bush is doing today. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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