MAX BOOT ON WHY THE NSA INTERCEPT PROGAM DOESN'T "BUG" US

LATIMES/Boot:

"... polls show that most people continue to support Bush's handling of the war on terrorism. As long as federal surveillance remains targeted on the country's enemies, not on the president's, the public will continue to yawn at hyperbolic criticisms of the commander in chief.

RTWT.

BTW: Nixon claimed he had POTUS/CiC/Ariucle II power to authorize surveillance on DOMESTIC threats. The SCOTUS decided in the 1972 Ketih decision that the POTUS only has Article II authority to authorize surveillance of foreign threats. In addition, it was discovered that many of Nixon's surveilance targets were poltivcal threats to him, and not domestic threats to the nation. Therefore, any comparison between what Bush authorized the NSA to do and what Nixon did is false.