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[privacy] Mukasey Says Bush Entitled to Ignore Federal Surveillance Law
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:55:53 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Another "Yes Man" for U.S. Attorney General. More of the same.. Via The Washington Post. [snip] Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey suggested today that the president could ignore federal surveillance law if it infringes on his constitutional authority as commander in chief. Under sharp questioning about the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program, Mukasey said there may be occasions when the president's wartime powers would supersede legal requirements to obtain a warrant to conduct wiretaps. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/AR200710180 1120.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHF9Zlq1pz9mNUZTMRAsBXAKCKNASROq3EE8+OJo2+RKxGV9OP8gCgr/L6 6lb0Q6PWXEmyr9pe96d9++Q= =+xwY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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