Tuesday, December 20, 2005

 

What's The Beef?

Somethings should be intuitive, but when your judgement is clouded by political partisanship, or simple hatred, you tend to lose intuition. Such seems to be the case when it comes to the communication intereceptions authorized by the president. Blinded by what they perceive as an opportunity to "get over" on Bush, the radical right, the Dems and those even further left are ranting like we are all about to be banished to the gulag.

Last summer when cruising the Baltic with Hugh Hewitt, I wrote about one of the speeches Hugh gave and he linked to it and thanked me for saving him the trouble. It's time for him to return the favor. Hugh has done a marvelous job, as only a teacher of constitutional law could, of laying out how what the president has done is compeltely legal. He has done so in four parts.

Read it, learn.

The most egregious part of this as far as I am concerned is the willingness to make political hay out of security issues. "Politics end at the water's edge" is not a cliche, it's an important idea designed to protect all of us so we can play the political games another day.

There are a lot of people that want to kill us. I, for one, will allow NSA to listen to every telephone call I make if it will help make the country safer from terror.


# posted by John Schroeder @ 12/20/2005 05:55:00 AM
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