W. and Wire Tapping (Page 4)

Bill of Rights.  Amendment IV

Executive orders is an example.  Below is the text from an EO written by Clinton in 1995.

Presidential Documents
8169
Federal Register
Vol. 60, No. 29
Monday, February 13, 1995
Title 3—
The President
Executive Order 12949 of February 9, 1995
Foreign Intelligence Physical Searches

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States, including sections 302 and 303 of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (‘‘Act’’) (50 U.S.C. 1801, et seq.), as
amended by Public Law 103–359, and in order to provide for the authorization
of physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes as set forth in
the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) of the Act, the Attorney General
is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order, to acquire
foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year, if the Attorney
General makes the certifications required by that section.

Sec. 2. Pursuant to section 302(b) of the Act, the Attorney General is authorized
to approve applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
under section 303 of the Act to obtain orders for physical searches for
the purpose of collecting foreign intelligence information.

Sec. 3. Pursuant to section 303(a)(7) of the Act, the following officials,
each of whom is employed in the area of national security or defense,
is designated to make the certifications required by section 303(a)(7) of
the Act in support of applications to conduct physical searches:

(a) Secretary of State;
(b) Secretary of Defense;
(c) Director of Central Intelligence;
(d) Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
(e) Deputy Secretary of State;
(f) Deputy Secretary of Defense; and
(g) Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.

None of the above officials, nor anyone officially acting in that capacity,
may exercise the authority to make the above certifications, unless that
official has been appointed by the President, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate.

THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 9, 1995.
[FR Doc. 95–3671
Filed 2-9-95; 2:30 pm]
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Oh yeah. Cuz we all know political sniping is a new phenomenon, peculiar to this Presidency only. President Clinton was daily showered with daisy petals by all members of Congress; Newt Gingrich used to wash Willy's feet in a rose water bath each morning.

True but that was when the Republic was still in it's infancy and they didn't know from one month to the next if the Republic would survive. That is not our current state of affairs. The US will withstand our enemies; we will be our own undoing in the long run.

Even during the Revolutionary War period, before the Republic was fully formed, George Washington accepted extraordinary war powers from the Continental Congress with the caveat that he would accept the powers only so that he could help form a Republic in which a leader would have no such powers (only he said it more eloquently than that).

You must admit, GWBush is no George Washington.