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December 24, 2005

Federal Court Supports Presidential Authority to Make Warrantless Searches

Former-senator Tom Daschle claims that Congress didn’t give President Bush the authority to conduct warrantless searches of people with links to foreign terrorists. Senator Ted Kennedy claims that President Bush has violated the law.

Well, here is a newsflash for both men and anyone who agrees with them:

Congress didn’t have to give President Bush authority to conduct the aforementioned searches because the President already had that authority.

In his op-ed piece, Sen. Kennedy wrote, “The president, the vice president, the secretary of state, and the attorney general tell us that the president can order domestic spying inside this country -- without judicial oversight -- under his power as commander in chief. Really? Where do they find that in the Constitution?”

Well, Sen. Kennedy will discover the answer to his question in a case decided on by the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. The case is In re: Sealed Case No. 02-001. The court made its decision on the case on November 18, 2002. [Hat Tip: bulldogpundit of Ankle Biting Pundits]

Here is what the court says on page 48 of its decision:

“The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information. It was incumbent on the court, therefore, to determine the boundaries of that constitutional authority in the case before it. We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the President’s constitutional power.”

According to the court’s decision, as long as the President is using warrantless phone tapping in order to obtain foreign intelligence information, the President is acting within the boundary of his constitutional authority.

On a related note, Michelle Malkin has an update on the controversy surrounding the NSA's activities.

Posted by Dodo David at December 24, 2005 12:00 PM

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