Rich Lowry on War & National Security Agency on National Review Online

Rich Lowry on War & National Security Agency on National Review Online: "Every administration, liberal or conservative, has claimed this warrantless surveillance power, and no court has ever denied it. The FISA court of review explained, citing the 14th Circuit's 1980 decision in a case involving the surveillance of a Vietnamese spy named David Truong, 'The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information.' The court added, 'We take it for granted that the President does have that authority.'"