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A Zeal to Defend Secrecy
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"Bush seems to have behaved as one would expect and want a president to behave," Kristol and Schmitt continued. Wrong again: I expect a president to obey the law, and to be impeached if he does not.
-- Tom Orange
Washington
Do William Kristol and Gary Schmitt think we're all stupid? They equated a pre-Sept. 11 request for surveillance of Zacarias Moussaoui with a post-Sept. 11 request for wiretapping the cell phone numbers found in a hypothetical al Qaeda operative's cell phone. They argued that since a request to surveil Moussaoui was turned down before Sept. 11, it was plausible that today's attempts to conduct prudent counterterrorism would be defeated in the special court.
The government failed miserably to anticipate the terrorist attacks of 2001. It is absurd and dangerous to advance this argument to allow the president dictatorial powers now. Once again, the right is using Sept. 11 to justify a campaign of terror against the Constitution.
