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As I have previously posted, there are many in this country (much brighter and more knowledgeable than myself) who believe that the president has the authority through article II of the constitution to protect the country from foreigners. Included in this authorization would be the use of wiretaps on American communication with known terrorist outside the country. In his article The Hidden State Steps Forward Jonathan Schell uses the word "undisutably" to start his proposition that the Bush administration broke the law. Indisuptable only if you are a whacked out leftie. He also claims the "Commander in Chief possesses "inherent" authority to suspend laws in wartime". The president did not suspend any law and I believe Mr. Schell is either ignorant or just a plain partisan hack to make this statement. I would refer Mr. Schell to this thoughful and lengthy explanation of the presidents authority and legality http://powerlineblog.com/archives/012631.php in this matter. It will either enlighten or infuriate Mr. Schell and his ilk. The rest of the article is full of lies and misrepresentations. The same old drum beat of Bush lies and breaks the law. The same stollen election and government to benefit the rich. This is how the left sees. As long as they persist in ignoring the truth, the lefties of his ilk will be left out of power. If for some reason, the people who believe the way Mr. Schell does ever do get back into power, the country will be in big trouble. Then people really will get killed, by true enemies who will be allowed to hide behind civil liberties and freedom. Instead of fighting a war on terrorism, we will take them to court prosecute the full extent of the law.

Call me small minded. Call me a simpleton. I don't believe that in the age of Wireless information transfer any of us should expect any semblance of privacy. Any time you use a cell phone, the internet, the credit card, the bathroom, data is created and stored somewhere. This data is available whether you like it or not. If somebody wants to access this data, they can and will, legally or illegally. Its a fact of life, so deal with it. If you want privacy, move to rural Montana and read only the newspaper and communicate only through VOIP (for now). Get a job that pays cash under the table and only pay cash for all your purchases. In the 21st century, anyone can know what you are doing if they want, including your government. Access to the data you produce daily is not that hard no matter how much you wish it were. So what is it with the Main Stream Media and the Main Stream Loony Liberal Democrats in this county? Why are civil liberties more important than civil protection? What makes the left think, in the name of civil liberty, it is proper and right to disclose secret programs used to keep the county out of harms way. In previous times, these leakers would be investigated, tried, convicted and then shot as traitors. Today, they are held up as some kind of hero http://www.kantor.com/blog/2005/12/when_the_right_wing_gets_out_of_touch.html. Look people, we are at war with forces that want to kill us. My children would like an opportunity to have children. We need to protect ourselves from the blood thirsty zealots who would just as easily kill a 1,000,000 American men, women, and children, as smoke out an ant hill. With a free and open society, these people can infiltrate our borders as easily as a mouse can crawl into your garage and take nest. As sure as the sun will set in the evening, these people are already here, just waiting for the opportunity to kill all of us. I don't believe terrorist should have the Civil Liberty to KILL all of us. Our Federal government is first and foremost charged with the task of protecting us from foreign enemies. In today's world that includes tracking down enemy cells already in place within our borders. The enemy now hides behind a wall built of liberties and enforced by the ACLU. Whatever tools our federal government have at their disposal should be used to find and thwart our enemies. If these tools impede upon our perceived civil liberties, so be it. In a time of war, I freely and willingly sacrifice some of my perceived privacy rights in order that we may track down and destroy the enemy that resides within our borders, be they citizens or not. All the civil liberties known to man will do me no good if my city is destroyed and I am dead. If and when the enemy is dead or defeated, the ACLU can worry about perceived civil liberty.

Powerline's John Hinderocker lays out the basis in law for the Presidents authority to conduct warrantless taps. Please read this before you make your claims and arguments.

OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT,OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT, OBSTURCT! Its time to throw them out, and you can take 4 or five Republican senators with them.

Lies, lies and more mis-truths. The times and democrats who control the party are full of them. No longer can the NYT and the rest of the MSM get away with pulling the wool over the American public.

You must read this article as the starting point of a discussion on what is or is not propper limits for our government in the fight on terror. We live in a free and open society with porrous borders and limited police autohority. Just how far should our leaders and the beaurocracy be allowed to penetrate into your privacy? How are we to find the enemy within (and you know they are here) without some effective tools? I don't have the answers, but will continue with some research. this might be an interesting read as to the legality of the presidents powers and authority{http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020607.html}.still looking

If you dont't believe we are winning the war in iraq and thus making progress on the world wide war on terrorism, you need to read this article. It will dispell some of the untruths published by the main steam media in the U.S.. We have done a good thing in Iraq, and history will be kind the the U.S. and the Bush 43 administration. A free and democratic Iraq is the domino to change the hearts and minds of the entire arab world.

I dare the senate to to block this vote. The security of the country is at stake. Any republicans that join with the democrats to block this vote should be thrown out at the earliest possible election. We need the patriot act, not a bunch of pansy senators.

The face of todays liberal (progressive) democrat party ..." What common vision do wealthy Manhattanite liberals, union members in depressed industrial areas, urban service employees, immigrant small-business owners, racial and ethnic minorities and university-town academics share? " a non-winning combination.