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From: LindyBill2/5/2006 10:33:35 PM
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SPECTER, OUT THERE AND UNCHALLENGED [Is Arlen Specter really as clueless as he appears to be? As reported by UPI, "[a]ppearing on NBC's "Meet the...]

Is Arlen Specter really as clueless as he appears to be? As reported by UPI, "[a]ppearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Specter called the administration's legal reasoning "strained and unrealistic" and said the program appears to be "in flat violation" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The fact is that the historic and legal case for the president's position is overwhelming. From the Constitution itself, numerous court decisions and Office of Legal Counsel opinions, to prior executive orders issued by presidents of both parties and the conduct of such presidents as Lincoln and FDR during war-time, to assert that the president's position is "strained and unrealistic" is nuts. And if, as Specter proclaims, the president is "in flat violation" of FISA, then it is FISA that is unconstitutional and Congress that is acting without authority.

I often wish there was a forum in which a pompous senator like Specter could actually be engaged in a serious debate. Interviews by TV hosts, press briefings, and scripted hearings do not permit a challenge to the routinely foolish statements Specter utters.
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