AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Sun Tzu and the Art of Spying

AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Sun Tzu and the Art of Spying:

"Like Nixon more than 35 years ago, Bush has ordered the NSA to conduct electronic snooping on communications of hundreds of people, including U.S. citizens. Unlike Nixon, however, this president has fully admitted spying and shown no remorse. Watergate settled Fourth Amendment law that the Executive Branch may not engage in wiretapping or other forms of electronic surveillance of the contents of private communications without probable cause and a warrant. Moreover, since the 1950s, the U.S. Supreme Court has clearly held that the president's power as commander in chief provides authority over the military and its battlefield operations but does not provide any comparable authority on matters at home."