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To: stockman_scott who wrote (9916)	1/27/2006 4:41:25 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541479

"Even if you believed an angel was making these decisions, and that's not what I'm saying, at some point the person in the White House will change," he said. "Hillary Clinton might be making these decisions." That should sort out the poll questions... ask those who claim to be OK with being tapped, whether they'd like Hillary Clinton to have the right to monitor all their calls. Or, say, some (Dem?) Senator who's really, really hot against tax evasion, and sees it as unpatriotic and illegal not to pay all the tax you should... <g> Seriously, it's a key point; even if you're happy with the current leadership having powers way beyond constitutional, are you happy to grant those to all his successors for as long as they choose to call it 'wartime' (as in "war on terror")?