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To: Dale Baker who wrote (12256)	2/16/2006 11:33:06 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 541345

George Will seems to have found his voice, lost in his Bush loyalties. Not a bad argument. But I found this last paragraph disturbing and wonder if anyone else did. But 53 months later, Congress should make all necessary actions lawful by authorizing the president to take those actions, with suitable supervision. It should do so with language that does not stigmatize what he has been doing, but that implicitly refutes the doctrine that the authorization is superfluous. His language, down to this last paragraph, was a model of clarity. Here he starts reaching for the kinds of abstractions that trouble me when a specific policy option is under discussion. The phrases "suitable supervision" and "implicitly refutes" are what I have in mind. It's not clear to me, and perhaps I'm slow, how he is doing anything other than saying the FISA law should be restated. But it in a way that doesn't say "you did wrong" to the Bush administration. Anyone see anything else? And does anyone know if Will is widely read in the Bush administration? I recall reading that Will was one of the first columnists read by the Reagan folk.

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