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- Title
Presidential Authority to Gather Foreign Intelligence.
- Authors
FEIN, BRUCE
- Abstract
President George W. Bush has claimed inherent constitutional authority to collect foreign intelligence on his say-so alone in contravention of the warrant requirements stipulated in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), as amended six times since 9/11. The constitutionality of FISA, however, is incontestable. It is justified by the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, section 8, clause 18 in light of the massive foreign intelligence abuses compiled during forty years of absolute executive power. FISA leaves the separation of powers undisturbed. It regulates only a microscopic percentage of foreign intelligence collection. To sustain President Bush's constitutional claims would “trust me” the measure of our civil liberties, not the checks and balances intended by the Constitution's architects.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EXECUTIVE power; INTELLIGENCE officers; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; PRESIDENTS of the United States; HEADS of state
- Publication
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2007, Vol 37, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
0360-4918
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1741-5705.2007.02582.x