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TIME is overly concerned about issues like the interrogation methods employed in the prison at Guantánamo and warrantless eavesdropping on phone calls. It is a typical liberal attitude to criticize and second-guess the government's tactics in the war against terrorism. Thank God, the media do not dictate U.S. policy and the general public is more sensible than...
...Feingold?s call to censure President Bush for his domestic surveillance program, which allows warrantless searches of people living in the United States and suspected of connections to terrorism, wasn?t that surprising, even though it had his normally chatty Democratic colleagues in the Senate ducking reporters to avoid talking about it. But Feingold may not have had his colleagues in mind in advocating censure. Increasingly, with at least 10 senators considering a run at the presidency, the place dubbed the World?s Greatest Deliberative Body often seems like a political laboratory where potential candidates trot out different ideas that...
Senate Republicans have drafted a new bill to address concerns surrounding President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping on Americans, but a copy of the legislation, obtained by TIME, shows it is not likely to end the controversy anytime soon. That's because even as the bill would impose some tough new restrictions on Bush's program, it would also legalize it. All of which means it will satisfy neither a White House that wants unlimited wartime power nor civil libertarians who want to prevent what they see as unwarranted electronic searches prohibited by the Constitution...
...Written by Ohio's Mike DeWine, the legislation tries, in effect, to put a fence around a wild horse. It would allow warrantless wiretaps and other electronic surveillance of people linked to groups plotting terrorist acts against the United States, while making a start at restoring legislative control over a White House that claims to be above the law in times of war. And since this is simply an agreement among Senate Republicans-the bill has an uncertain future, at best-there is no guarantee that other actors in Congress won't make the fence higher, or for that matter...
...having Democrats whine about Bush's warrantless wiretaps: all they talked about before was how the President never listened to them." --WILL DURST...