WOuld you support Hillary Clinoton using wiretaps or domestic surveillance?

Question

If she were president? Would you be OK with her suspending due process to gather personal information from american citizens? Do you trust that she would use it wisely, and not for personal political gain? If the answer is no, would you seek to get rid of the PATRIOT act if a democrat were to take office?

declaring your innocence does not answer the question

Jen. this isn't MY logic...it is just a question.

Answer 1

Anyone who answers yes to this question follows the logic of a police state.My answers is and always will be no.Don't care who's in power.
Civil liberties have been fought for for centuries all around the world but now people would simply give them up without a struggle cos they're spoiled.They don't remember or can imagine how it is without them. They take life as we know it for granted while they accept when someone takes it away
Want to stress this again,the argument I have nothing to hide is the logic of a police state.When you choose to enter that logic you are no longer the land of the free and nothing stand in the way of government to take further steps.

Answer 2

Yes.

I believe that Bush has acted within his constitutional authority in the conduct of his surveillance, interrogation and detention programs.

Anyone elected president, be it Bush, Hillary, you, me, or whomever, would have these powers.

No, I do not trust Hillary Clinton with these powers.

But if enough of my countrymen disagree and elect her president, there's nothing I can do about it.

I would not trust her to make good judicial appointments either, but this is no reason to take away every president's judicial appointment power.

And there is an argument - not settled to everyone satisfaction by any means, but a legitimate argument - that the president has many of these powers in wartime even without the Patriot Act or other enabling legislation.

Again, I do not want Hillary to have these powers. But the remedy is not to elect her, not to weaken the office.

Let's all vote wisely! :)

Answer 3

"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." (Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton - June 28, 2004, in San Francisco at a Democrat Party fundraiser)

"I want to take those profits and put them into an alternative energy fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy alternatives that will actually begin to move us toward the direction of independence." (Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton - February 2, 2007, at DNC Winter Meeting - regarding profits earned by oil companies, which are not [yet] owned by the government)

"As president I know I can't kill, jail or occupy every nation we don't agree with and I cannot just wish that all the terrorists be wiped off the face of the Earth" (Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton - February 10, 2007, at a campaign appearance in New Hampshire)

"We're going to change the way we finance the system by taking away money from people who are doing well now" — (Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton — March 24, 2007, at a health care forum in Las Vegas)

Answer 4

I would support NO president who wished to weild that level of power - illegal as it is anyway. I trust NO person, president, political party, or politician to have access to activities which are - by their very definition - illegal under our Constitution. This goes as much for for Hillary, Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Rudely Giuliani, John McCain, and Romney as it does for G. W. Bush. Wrong is wrong - nomatter who does it.

The PATRIOT Act should have been burned in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building and never enacted - let alone voted upon.

Answer 5

The Patriot Act should be removed REGARDLESS of who is in office. It's not the administrator that makes the Act dangerous and unconstitutional, it's the Act itself. There is a fallacy in your logic.

Answer 6

I wouldn't support Hillary Clinton to cross the street.

Besides, she already did illegal wiretaps and domestic surveillance back when she was First Lady

Travelgate, anyone?

Answer 7

No more than I support Bush doing the same now.

Answer 8

I don't support Bush doing it so why would I support Hillary or anyone else doing it?

Answer 9

She would be wise to wiretap and surveil her tomcatting husband.

Answer 10

Absolutely not. My objection to warrantless wiretapping has nothing to do with who is in power.