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2006-08-18 03:13:40 · 17 answers · asked by thechamp 1 in News & Events Current Events

17 answers

NO!

2006-08-18 03:18:47 · answer #1 · answered by Gigi 3 · 3 1

No, this over steps the right to privacy guarenteed in both the 4th and the 1st amendment in the Bill of Rights. If he can get a warrant legally through the court system (the FISA courts were set up specifically for this purpose) that is one thing. But he has no legal right to, and actually the legal obligation not to, unilaterally decide to spy on American citizens.

2006-08-18 03:32:53 · answer #2 · answered by John J 6 · 1 1

First of all..,its not the President that spies on people good lord.Get a grip.Its homelaInd security and as long as you are not conducting suspisous terrorist red flag activity,you have nothing to worry about.I dont have a problem with it..,they have better things to do than to listen to you and your girlfriend having phone sex.Dont do anything wrong and you shouldnt have any worries, right?I feel safer knowing they are looking for this kind of activity thats the only way they are going to catch the terrorists..,right???Helloooo..,is anyone there?

2006-08-18 03:37:56 · answer #3 · answered by halfbright 5 · 0 0

As a registered Republican who excises his vote as a Libertarian, i might want to provide Bush a three on a scale of one million to 10. He made a mistake with Iraq. We by technique of no means might want to of entered this conflict. He made a significant mistake with TARP. If one believes in the free marketplace as I do, enable the marketplace restore the priority. All TARP did grew to grow to be into bail out the wealthy on the tax payers price. He gave authorities the means to invaded our inner maximum lives. He did some good. He grew to grow to be into an awesome loving guy or lady who believed he grew to grow to be into doing the suited component. He in uncomplicated words had undesirable advisers.

2016-11-26 00:04:27 · answer #4 · answered by merralee 4 · 0 0

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Thursday refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s domestic spying program, rejecting government claims that allowing the case to go forward could expose state secrets and jeopardize the war on terror.

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said the warrantless eavesdropping has been so widely reported that there appears to be no danger of spilling secrets.

Dozens of lawsuits alleging that telecommunications companies and the government are illegally intercepting Americans’ communications without warrants have been filed. This is the first time a judge has ruled on the government’s claim of a “state secrets privilege.”

“It might appear that none of the subject matter in this litigation could be considered a secret given that the alleged surveillance programs have been so widely reported in the media,” Walker said.

‘Dismissing this case ... would sacrifice liberty’
Walker also wrote that he did not see how allowing the lawsuit to continue could threaten national security.

“The compromise between liberty and security remains a difficult one,” Walker said. “But dismissing this case at the outset would sacrifice liberty for no apparent enhancement of security.”

And in declining to dismiss AT&T Inc. from the lawsuit, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy group, Walker suggested the case had some merit. “AT&T cannot seriously contend that a reasonable entity in its position could have believed that the alleged domestic dragnet was legal,” he wrote.

The Justice Department did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

The lawsuit challenges President Bush’s assertion that he can use his wartime powers to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant. It accuses AT&T of illegally cooperating with the National Security Agency to make communications on AT&T networks available to the spy
agency without warrants.

‘Of the highest order’
The government intervened in the case, telling Walker that Bush’s surveillance program, adopted after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, is “a secret of the highest order.”

The government argued that divulging any information about any alleged collusion between AT&T and the government to eavesdrop on Americans could subject AT&T employees and facilities to attack and would enable terrorists “to communicate more securely.”

The state secrets defense, first recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in a McCarthy-era lawsuit, has been increasingly and successfully invoked by federal lawyers seeking to shield the government from court scrutiny.

The high court has upheld the legal tactic as recently as January, when it rejected an appeal from a former covert CIA officer who accused the agency of racial discrimination.

‘Wholesale surveillance’
The president confirmed in December that the NSA has been conducting warrantless surveillance of calls and e-mails thought to involve al-Qaida terrorists if at least one of the parties to the communication is outside the United States.

The administration contends the program is legal and necessary, but has been mum on whether purely domestic calls and electronic communications are being monitored, as the lawsuit alleges.

Under a deal reached this month with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bush agreed to support a bill that could submit the program to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a constitutional review.

The EFF asked Walker to rule on whether the president possesses wartime powers to authorize warrantless eavesdropping in the United States. The EFF alleges that San Antonio-based AT&T, which neither confirms nor denies the allegations, practices “wholesale surveillance” of its customers.


WAY TO GO JUDGE WALKER!!!!!

2006-08-18 03:39:02 · answer #5 · answered by melinda w 3 · 1 1

Bush can't win. If we monitor INCOMING calls from terrorist nations, he's criticized. If we don't and that inaction leads to a terrorist attack, he's criticized.
What would you do if you were the president?

2006-08-18 16:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by scourgeoftheleft 4 · 1 0

How long was he doing before the truth was known. He done his job in destroying the constitution and bill of rights.

2006-08-18 04:30:48 · answer #7 · answered by murraystate69 3 · 0 1

He did'nt spy on anyone.
It's the little children playing computer games with Mr. Big brother who is the biggest peeping tom on planet earth.
Orson Wells tried to warn living human kind on being screwed up by artificial intelligence on planet earth.
When living human kind did not know how to decode the warning signal on planet earth.
Observe how living human kind all got screwed up with Iraq doing the ghost busting on planet earth.
Still we did not learn who screwed up living human kind on planet earth.
Poor old Saddam is just a case of mistaken identity created by litlle children playing computer games on planet earth.
With Fear is the Key.

2006-08-18 03:31:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 4

He is able to, but he should not be allowed. What is the point of the 4th Amendment?

2006-08-18 03:54:25 · answer #9 · answered by I.M. 3 · 1 1

no Bush is rapidly exceeding his power and attempting to become an American dictator

2006-08-18 03:21:00 · answer #10 · answered by fuellover2002 2 · 2 2

Yes, in order to discover traitors among us!!!

2006-08-18 03:35:29 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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