Former President Jimmy Carter, who publicly rebuked President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program this week during the funeral of Coretta Scott King and at a campaign event, used similar surveillance against suspected spies.
“Under the Bush administration, there’s been a disgraceful and illegal decision—we’re not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we’re spying on the American people,” Mr. Carter said Monday in Nevada when his son Jack announced his Senate campaign.
“And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this secret act,” he said.
The next day at Mrs. King’s high-profile funeral, Mr. Carter evoked a comparison to the Bush policy when referring to the “secret government wiretapping” of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
But in 1977, Mr. Carter and his attorney general, Griffin B. Bell, authorized warrantless electronic surveillance used in the conviction of two men for spying on behalf of Vietnam. The men, Truong Dinh Hung and Ronald Louis Humphrey, challenged their espionage convictions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which unanimously ruled that the warrantless searches did not violate the men’s rights.
In its opinion, the court said the executive branch has the “inherent authority” to wiretap enemies such as terror plotters and is excused from obtaining warrants when surveillance is “conducted ‘primarily’ for foreign intelligence reasons.”

But THAT’s different. It was used in court to convict someone.

at least by me

Keep your chin up and fight back. You’re not here to be the designated scapegoat.

I KNEW it. Brown’s the new Democrat hero.

The only way we can lose to the mystics of brute force and the masters of spirit is to cower in fear. I am not saying it will be easy or without fright, but let’s stand together on this.

I just wanted to comment on the success of your bill. May I suggest Jack Abramoff as your new poster child?

In Liberty,
SondraK

...and reason # 985384374565 why I don’t do Ecstasy while on Muslim.

***apparently the site hatesess FireFox for some folks.

Now where’s my dammed Fatwa?!?!

Boazo (first recipient of 3 stars!!!!)

Who/what owns Vallero Gas stations/oil company?

I’m on my way to pick up three mini Chiwawa poochies that I’ll be hosting here for a week.

And they only “speak” Spanish.

One is of the Antonio Banderas fame what I was going to adopt last year but they changed their mind and wanted to keep him.

We don’t call it The RaguZoo here fer nuthin’.

*CURSES* Scorpius

The U.S. budget registered a surprisingly big surplus of $20.99 billion in January as strong receipts outweighed spending, a Treasury Department report showed.

I’m sure the end of the earth, zero sum thinking, 5 minutes to midnight crowd will be aghast at the news.  F’em.

Go Team America!!