From: "Gary Britt" 

Jimmy Carter signed FISA into law, but still maintained that he had
inherent authority to do things outside of FISA.  Why sign that law if he
already had the authority?

Why ask congress for something you already have authority to do?  Are you
really that short on imagination and nuance.?

Yes less take Daschle's word for it, he's unbiased and truthful....NOT.

In that very same resolution congress also didn't explicitly approve
grabbing up USA citizen's who are enemy combatants and holding them
indefinitely without charges till the war is over, yet the Supreme Court in
Hamdi said that's EXACTLY what congress said.

Are you really this obtuse or just blinded by partisanship?

Gary

"Monte Davis"  wrote in message
news:o5kqq1hfl38gc0304upo7dt8dh853igagl{at}4ax.com...
> "Phil Payne"  wrote:
>
> >"The Bush administration now argues those powers were inherently
contained
> >in the resolution adopted by Congress - but at the time, the
administration
> >clearly felt they weren't or it wouldn't have tried to insert the
additional
> >language," the South Dakota Democrat wrote.
>
> "Q: If FISA didn't work, why didn't you seek a new statute that
> allowed something like this legally?
>
> "GONZALES: That question was asked earlier. We've had discussions with
> members of Congress, certain members of Congress, about whether or not
> we could get an amendment to FISA, and we were advised that that was
> not likely to be -- that was not something we could likely get,
> certainly not without jeopardizing the existence of the program, and
> therefore, killing the program. And that -- and so a decision was made
> that because we felt that the authorities were there, that we should
> continue moving forward with this program."
>
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051219-1.html
>
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