Articles & Excerpts

• Carter allowed surveillance in 1977
• Since long before Bush, the White House has abused its powers By Thomas Woods, Jr.
• Presidential Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance By Congressional Research Service
• What Year Is This Anyway? Rollback to 1214 AD By Nick Turse
• Has President Bush Committed an Impeachable Offense? By Stanley I. Kutler
• Is Bush Just Following Lincoln's Example? By William C. Kashatus
• Congress can't usurp the president's power to spy on America's enemies By Robert F. Turner
• Lincoln and Bush on vigilance and responsibility By Mackubin Thomas Owens
• 'Warrantless' searches not unprecedented By Washington Times
• Absolute Executive Power? By Sidney Blumenthal
• Bush's Surprising Resort to Eavesdropping without a Warrant By David Kahn
• Thank you Mr. President for wiretapping By WSJ Editorial
• Uncle Sam is listening By Bruce Schneier
• Precedents and Presidents By Caleb McDaniel

Paul Mocker - 12/23/2005

<em>Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to understand it, examine it, define it.</em>

The March of Folly, page 167.

Was she right?