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...questions Monday as Senators from both parties tried to corner him on the limits of presidential wartime powers. It was the first real public debate in Congress since 9/11 about presidential authority in times of war, and so while the hearing was ostensibly about the President's secret warrantless wiretapping program, the most exercised debate was about how far the Commander in Chief's powers could be taken without judicial oversight...
...That is doubtful. But Gonzales heard plenty of what the Senators had to say. When Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, suggested the former White House Counsel had been less than truthful during his Attorney General confirmation hearings a year ago for saying that a question about warrantless wiretapping was "hypothetical," Gonzales remained firm; the question was indeed hypothetical, he retorted, because Feingold had asked him whether he thought the President could authorize eavesdropping "in violation...
...letter continued that the president’s constitutional authority as commander in chief authorizes warrantless domestic spying and this authority is supplemented by Congress’ Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF...
...professors attacked the administration’s two principal claims: that the president’s authority as commander in chief permits him to authorize warrantless wiretapping and that AUMF implicitly authorized domestic spying. The professors also argued that the eavesdropping program could violate the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures...
...During the hearing Feingold had asked Gonzales if the president, as commander in chief, could “authorize warrantless searches of Americans’ homes and wiretaps of their conversations in violation of the criminal and foreign intelligence surveillance statutes of this country.” Gonzales, who knew of the NSA program’s existence as White House counsel, denied that the administration was engaging in any illegal wiretapping and that they were discussing a “hypothetical situation...