By Mark Drolette
It’s not often, in these dire times, I laugh out loud when the Bush
administration, or one of its lackeys, makes yet another insane
assertion. (Ed.: Mark, “insane” is superfluous here, given the source.)
But I couldn’t help it recently after perusing this lead by Laurie Kellman of the Associated Press:
“President Bush's choice for attorney general [Michael Mukasey] told senators … the Constitution does not prevent the president from wiretapping suspected terrorists without a court order.”
Wow. That’s quite the claim, dontcha think, considering the Fourth Amendment kind of implies -- you know, in an unequivocal, iron-clad, irrefutable implying sort of way -- that wiretapping without a search warrant is, well, gosh, just so darn unconstitutional. (If confirmation’s needed, I suggest consulting any fifth grade American history class.)
