Sen. Bond: Constitution gives president authority to protect us

The president has the constitutional authority to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes. In the most recent case addressing this issue, the 1980 Truong case, the court upheld the executive branch's warrantless electronic surveillance in the United States for foreign intelligence purposes. The court explicitly recognized a foreign intelligence exception to the warrant requirement based on the president's constitutional authority and responsibility to protect national security.

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051225/OPINIONS/512250310/1006

Of course since he doesn't cite the whole case I can't go and read it. Anyone know what case this was and if the two are at all comparable?

supports compulsory goose-stepping.

He's been the senator from Missouri for it seems like a hundred years. Always a conservative, now he shows he's willing to sell out the people to protect the party.

. . . is a porcine old sycophant. Sure wish he'd go away.

the time it was written? Besides, it's just a piece of paper.

The case cited seems to me (a non-lawyer) to deal with a specific disagreement regarding a rule put in place by FISA which the court in question seems to hold was overreaching on FISA's part (if I understand what I'm reading at midnight after a long Christmas Day).

Nothing appears to question the legal requirement that the Administration seek a warrant for electronic surveillance which seems to be the issue at hand, only the requirements that have to be met by the government in the process of applying for such a warrant.

Hey, maybe I'm wrong but what Bush did seems to have nothing to do with what the decision cited dealt with.

The question isn't what the law said; the question is whether the President deliberately refused to obey the law, no matter what it said.

He's already admitted that.

if he is an enemy of the constitution. Have the enemy of the US arrested.

Here is the US Supreme court case, but it covers BOND while the case is one appeal NOT wire tapping:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=439&invol=1326

A good source of Legal decisions is Find law:
http://www.findlaw.com/

Find Law only has cases since 1998 as to Circuit Court cases, and the wire tapping case seems to come out of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (Virginia) NOT the US Supreme Court.

But hey you and I know Bond is nuts so we know not to pay attention to him.