Presidential Domestic Surveillance.

IN A BOLD AND CONTROVERSIAL DECISION, the president authorized a program for the surveillance of communications within the United States, seeking to prevent acts of domestic sabotage and espionage. In so doing, he ignored a statute that possibly forbade such activity, even though high-profile federal judges had affirmed the statute's validity. The president sought statutory amendments allowing this surveillance but, when no such legislation was forthcoming, he continued the program nonetheless. And when Congress demanded that he disclose details of the surveillance program, the attorney general said, in no uncertain terms, that it would get nothing of the sort.
This bit of Presidential cowboyness was brought to you by none other than Democratic Icon FDR.Shall we bash him?
Did his party bash him?
The Supreme Court had ruled against his tactic but what did FDR say? "I am convinced that the Supreme Court never intended any dictum in the particular case which it decided to apply to grave matters involving the defense of the nation." And he did it anyway.
Here we have a President at war doing his very best to defend his Country.
An Icon of the Democratic party doing EXACLTY the same thing the Democratic party is so exercised about President Bush for.
But this latest program is far less the what FDR did, in the first program all we know is they are listening to international conversations involving known terrorists.
In the latest records of calls, with no names attached looking for patterns.I wonder if the mad at Bush types will also trash the history provided here by a liberal Icon.
(hint for source material click the title of this post)

Man, the Democratic party really doesn't stand for anything anymore. Say and do whatever it takes to get elected...

Taken from RDW