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To: Lane3 who wrote (22485)	6/28/2006 9:05:10 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) of 541543

When a government takes extraordinary steps based on controversial, self-asserted authority and those steps can affect everyone in the US, I consider it very newsworthy. Bush constantly asserts either that his office inherently has powers to do what few or no presidents before him ever did, or Congress has given him blanket authority. Last time I checked, Congress does not have the constitutional power to give the executive unfettered scope of action as it sees fit. If the NYT discovered we had 12 special satellites over a tiny part of Pakistan dedicated to finding Bin Laden, I would expect them to withhold that information lest it prompt Bin Laden to flee. That is specific operational intelligence. But the terrorists know in general that the satellites are after them, their phone communications will be monitored and that most international bank transactions will be checked by somebody somewhere. Reporting what is going on in those areas is not giving anything away to the enemy. But it raises important questions of justification and authority that more than a handful of inner circle partisans should decide.

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