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Does McCain Endorse Wiretapping U.S. Citizens?

Posted June 13, 2008

“Sen. McCain believed that the Constitution gave Mr. Bush the power to authorize the National Security Agency to monitor Americans’ international phone calls and emails.” — Bob Bauman

by Bob Bauman

Baltimore – (TFN): The recent headline on the Wired website said it all: McCain: I’d Spy on Americans Secretly, Too.

What prompted this disturbing, possibly inaccurate statement was a June 6 New York Times report, which read:

“A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed by the Bush administration legal team.”

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The Times report also noted that in a letter, McCain advisor, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said Sen. McCain believed that the Constitution gave George Bush the power to authorize the National Security Agency to monitor Americans’ international phone calls and emails. Mr. Bush had the right to do so without warrants, despite a 1978 federal statute that requires court approval and oversight of all such surveillance. Read on to learn more.

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