12-19-2005, 04:00 AM
Ghostiger,Dec 18 2005, 09:02 PM Wrote:I really doubt its that simple.
I suspect that to some degree this wire tapping did make America safer from terrorists.
But it is a problem and this is not the way to handle it especially at this point.
People often forget that our greatest President utterly broke with the Constitution and suspended Habeus Corpus in a time of emergency on no authority but his own.
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I'd debate Lincoln's status as our greatest president. Illegally imprisoning Maryland delegates so they couldn't vote for secession isn't a cool thing, IMHO.
Plus, you know, I'd go with Washington instead - Father of our nation and all that.