As we’ve known for years, the May 6, 2004 OLC opinion authorizing the warrantless wiretap program shifted the claimed basis for the program from inherent Article II power to a claim the Afghanistan AUMF trumped FISA. But one problem with that argument (hard to fathom now that Afghanistan has once again become our main forever [...]
How to Ensure You’ll Always Have War Powers to Fight Eastasia |
| By: emptywheel Monday March 21, 2011 3:33 pm |


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