t on principle opposed to preventive attacks on Iran, a position that is complete anathema to many supporters.Finally, Obama’s near complete reversal on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Patriot Act show that he ultimately supports the Bush administration’s expansion of executive power to fight the war on terrorism,longchamp pliage plume. With his support of the compromise FISA, he’s not just going back on his previous position on FISA legislation but embracing a warrantless-surveillance program that most liberal Democrats have opposed on constitutional grounds.In a recent oped for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, liberal standard-bearer Sen. Russ Feingold wrote, “When the president claimed that he could wiretap innocent Americans without a warrant, he asserted one of the most intrusive government powers imaginable.” By Feingold’s own logic, Obama is not averse to wielding the “most intrusive government powers imaginable” for himself. Similarly, before Obama was in the Senate, he said he supported repealing the Patriot Act, but after he was in the Senate he voted to reauthorize it. (To be fair, it was reauthorized with minor changes.)No doubt many people are eager to support Obama’s foreign policy because of pragmatic issues, or in response to the perceived incompetence of the Bush administration. And nobody’s arguing that there aren’t other, very important differences between the Obama, Bush, and McCain foreign policies — Israel is a point of contention, among other issues.But if significant numbers of Democrats are supporting Obama because they believe he represents a complete ideological break from the Bush administration’s foreign policy, they’re kidding themselves. Ultimately, electing Barack Obama may go a long way toward validating much of Bush’s foreign-policy legacy,sac longchamp pas cher.– Mark Hemingway is an NRO staff reporter.[标签:标题]
Getting FISA Wrong . . . Again A California federal judge takes time out from dismissing suit to slap Bush's surveillance program. A federal court in California has dismissed a civil lawsuit that alleged surveillance violations against a Muslim charity the government has formally designated as supporter of al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.Nevertheless, in his ill-conceived 56-page opinion, Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, of the district court in San Francisco, gets to the right result only after concluding that Congress has the power to preempt the president’s constitutional authority. Judge Walker found that the 1978 FISA statute (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) did precisely that, and therefore that the Bush administration’s Terrorist Surveillance Program, under which the National Security Agency eavesdropped on suspected terrorist communications crossing U,sac fourre tout longchamp.S. borders without seeking FISA-court authorization, was illegal. Advertisement The case involves the Oregon branch of the Saudi-based al-Haramain Islamic Foundation. AHF is among the largest of the Islamic world’s ostensibly “charitable” organizations. Hence, is it one of the gre Related articles:

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