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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (180181)	1/18/2006 8:44:39 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

"we find by fatal experience that Congress consists of too many members to keep secrets." Like the old saying goes.. Two people can keep a secret only if one of them is dead... In 1980 the Carter administration argued in the Truong case that the government could conduct domestic, warrantless wiretaps of conversations between a U.S. and a Vietnamese citizen who had been passing on U.S. military intelligence to the North Vietnamese. The Supreme Court agreed. In 1982 a federal court of appeals ruled that "the National Security Agency may lawfully intercept messages between United States citizens and people overseas, even if there is no cause to believe the Americans are foreign agent." And in 2002 the FISA court said that the president has "inherent constitutional authority to conduct warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance." This seems to create a great degree of suspicion as to why this story is even news, let alone news that had to be held for over a year until just after the very successful Iraqi elections. Good thing no one politicizes our "free press". Hawk

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