Carter Is Another Do As I Say Moonbat

Stop The ACLU has a real nice piece about the matter of surveillance. It seems that Jimmy Carter, the same senile former President who referenced surveillance at Coretta King’s funeral, was involved in surveillance without a warrant. This is from the article at Stop the ACLU:

Former President Jimmy Carter, who publicly rebuked President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program this week during the funeral of Coretta Scott King and at a campaign event, used similar surveillance against suspected spies.

“Under the Bush administration, there’s been a disgraceful and illegal decision — we’re not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we’re spying on the American people,” Mr. Carter said Monday in Nevada when his son Jack announced his Senate campaign.

“And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this secret act,” he said.

The next day at Mrs. King’s high-profile funeral, Mr. Carter evoked a comparison to the Bush policy when referring to the “secret government wiretapping” of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

But in 1977, Mr. Carter and his attorney general, Griffin B. Bell, authorized warrantless electronic surveillance used in the conviction of two men for spying on behalf of Vietnam.

The men, Truong Dinh Hung and Ronald Louis Humphrey, challenged their espionage convictions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which unanimously ruled that the warrantless searches did not violate the men’s rights.

In its opinion, the court said the executive branch has the “inherent authority” to wiretap enemies such as terror plotters and is excused from obtaining warrants when surveillance is “conducted ‘primarily’ for foreign intelligence reasons.”

As President Bush has been saying all along, other Presidents have done the same thing under their Constitutional authority. The difference is, to the donks Constitutional authority only extends to them. As soon as a Republican is President he needs to take everything to the Congress. Our President is looking out for our safety, something you can never trust a donk with. Read the rest of the article, it is well worth it.

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