http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index....910.xml&coll=1
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration argued yesterday that the president has inherent war powers under the Constitution to order warrantless eavesdropping on the international calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens and others in this country, offering the administration's most detailed legal defense of its surveillance program to date.
The Justice Department's lengthy legal analysis also claims that if a 1978 law that requires court warrants for domestic eavesdropping is interpreted as blocking the president's powers to protect the country in a time of war, its constitutionality is doubtful and the president's authority supersedes it.
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What did I tell you? Bush is going to challenge the constitutionality of FISA.
Only *after* he got caught violating it, of course. But never mind that.
I'm going to need more popcorn....