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To: JohnM who wrote (12261)	2/16/2006 11:45:18 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541347

I imagine Will is persona non grata in the current Bush White House. He has taken it on himself to be the voice of old-school classic conservatism and savage the current "conservative" Congress and administration for straying so far off the reservation. I would guess that he doesn't want to see anything that weakens a president's power to do the necessary when it comes to national security, but under Congressional oversight as stipulated in our governing documents. The scary part is that the administration could easily defuse the issue by getting a revised FISA bill from Congress. Everyone would be happy. So what else do they want to do (or are doing now) outside the Congressional purview that they don't want to implicitly criminalize by admitting that FISA has sway over wiretaps? Makes me wonder.

To: JohnM who wrote (12261)	2/16/2006 2:13:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541347

George Will seems to have found his voice, lost in his Bush loyalties. Will was the first major pundit to speak out. It seemed to me that he opened the door through which a few others tentatively followed. I wish I could recall the first issue he addressed. I'm a fan. 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. The way I read it, he's saying that FISA should be changed to authorize what Bush has been doing although with judicial oversight. And that it should be understood that Bush didn't have that authority without congress giving it to him. IOW, what Bush did was the right thing to do and should be authorized so he can legitimately do it. He wants to keep up the wiretapping but disabuse Bush of his assault on balance of power.