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To: Ilaine who wrote (132278)	8/13/2005 7:42:40 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) of 793782

How can you talk about what the President can do "in the event of a terrorist attack" without recognizing that we've already had a terrorist attack? You're trying to drag the conversation into some fantasy land where the President imposes permanent Executive Emergency Law. Not what is being proposed. Can the President do that? Yes - upon suspension of habeas corpus by Congress. Lincoln did it. Roosevelt and Congress exercised broad, extraordinary powers over every facet of American life during WWII. Is it within the President's or Congress's discretion as to when a war or emergency situation stops? In large part - War Powers extend to duration of hostilities and their secondary effects. Look at the Rent and Steel Seizure cases. Are we talking about that? No. Has anyone suggested that 9/11 presented such an emergency situation? No. Could such an emergency situation occur? Yes. Derek

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