Chi Tribune Smacks King George: "Surveillance vs. the law"

[Inland]

(Republican party organ smacks Bush. This is the paper that jokingly endorsed the Jimmy Smits character on West Wing as the first dem it has backed since the turn of the century. Not a putdown. It just IS a historically republican paper. And it's still better than the Sun Times. I get it myself.)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0512200277dec20,1,6823583.story?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed

"Surveillance vs. the law"

In the best of times, there is a natural tension between safeguarding national security and respecting the liberties of Americans. In times of war, that tension becomes even stronger. In many ways, the Bush administration has been restrained in its handling of the war on terror, avoiding the gross abuses that occurred during past conflicts. But by launching a secret program that involves spying on Americans, it has overreached badly, and unnecessarily.

President Bush not only defends what he's done but vows to keep doing it, never mind the evidence that he is acting in violation of the law. If he persists in pressing beyond the bounds of presidential war-making authority, it will be up to Congress to press back and restore a sensible balance of powers.

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If Bush thinks FISA is inadequate to the demands of this new war, he should go to Congress and the country and make the case for changing it. So far, the only case the administration has made is that it thinks it can scorn the law.

[ray of light]

1. kick

[Bjornsdotter]

2. Wow, must be the first sign of the apocalypse

...for the Trib to slam Bush.

I canceled my subscription years ago when they backed *.

Cheers!

[Cha]

3. Wonder if they've ever had

second thoughts..backing a megalomaniac monkey?