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...invested with a larger truth. For too many liberals, all secret intelligence activities are "fruit," and bitter fruit at that. The government is presumed guilty of illegal electronic eavesdropping until proven innocent. This sort of civil-liberties fetishism is a hangover from the Vietnam era, when the Nixon Administration wildly exceeded all bounds of legality-spying on antiwar protesters and civil rights leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Stay Out of Power | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...Henry Kissinger even wiretapped his own aides. But the "all fruit" assumption doesn't take into account the strict constraints placed on the intelligence community after the Nixon debacle, or the lethally elusive nature of the current terrorist threat. The liberal reaction is also an understandable consequence of the Bush Administration's tendency to play fast and loose on issues of war and peace-rushing to war after overhyping the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's nuclear-weapons program, appearing to tolerate torture, keeping secret prisons in foreign countries and denying prisoners basic rights. At the very least, the Administration should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Stay Out of Power | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...Bush as Reagan and Goldwater and Bush as Woodrow Wilson," says a presidential adviser. But when civil liberties are involved, inviting historic comparisons can be a dangerous business. "This is an Administration," says Leahy, "that has tried to bypass courts and the legal procedures more than any since Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Says, Bring It On; the Critics Will | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

...focus briefly on what the President has done here. Exactly like Nixon before him, Bush has ordered the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct electronic snooping on communications of various people, including U.S. citizens. That action is unequivocally contrary to the express and implied requirements of federal law that such surveillance of U.S. persons inside the U.S. (regardless of whether their communications are going abroad) must be preceded by a court order. General Michael Hayden, a former director of the NSA and now second in command at the new Directorate of National Intelligence, testified to precisely that point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Snooping Damages the Nation | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

...warrant wiretaps may be the sharpest expression yet of the Administration's willingness to expand the scope of Executive power. When the NSA was established, in 1952, there were few legal limits on its power to spy within the U.S. Then came the intelligence-gathering abuses of the Nixon years, when the NSA as well as the FBI were used by the White House to spy on civil rights and anti-Vietnam War activists. In 1978 Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which required the NSA to obtain a warrant any time it sought to monitor communications within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Bush Gone Too Far? | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

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