Jimmy Carter: Hypocrite
I thought I’d finished talking about Jimmy Carter’s outrageous claims that the NSA intercepts were illegal but I can’t let this hypocrisy go unchallenged:
“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.
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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.”
Democrats will argue that that happened before FISA was enacted and that’s accurate. But that still doesn’t negate the fact that the Fourth Circuit said that the president, in that instance Carter, had the “inherent authority” to wiretap enemies and that it didn’t violate the defendants’ Fourth Amendment rights. It’s also important to note that this surveillance didn’t happen during wartime.
It seems to me that this sheds an entirely new light on how despicable Jimmy Carter has become and how wrong on the law Democrats, and Arlen Specter, are on this issue. FISA can’t limit in any way a president’s constitutional powers. The only way to change a president’s constitutional powers is to pass and ratify a constitutional amendment on specific presidential powers. Anything short of that will get struck down by the Supreme Court in a heartbeat. And I’d doubt that it’d be a 5-4 vote.
“Just when you thought that the Democrats’ image of being soft on defense issues couldn’t get any worse, enter the sage wisdom of President Jimmy Carter to save the day,” said Brian Nick, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
The Democratic Party is the gift that keeps on giving.
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing
February 11th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Carter’s Comeuppance
Turns out this vain, bitter failed president who tries to budinkski in foreign affairs (screwing up in North Korea) did the same thing. The Washington Times reported today, Carter allowed surveillance in 1977
February 11th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
Spies Like Us
At first, Carter uses Coretta Scott King ’s funeral to blast Bush’s eavesdropping program. Then, the Washington Times remembers that in ‘77 Carter did exactly the same. Time goes on, but Carter is always the worst president of the century.
February 11th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
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February 11th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Is it any wonder President Carter received an electoral drubbing in 1980?
February 11th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
A small blow to his reelection campaign came on April 20, 1979, when he was attacked by a “killer rabbit” while fishing in a pond from a small boat. The swimming rabbit, perhaps ill or fleeing from a predator, attempted to board the president’s craft. Carter flailed at the rabbit with his paddle, splashing water at it, and the rabbit turned and swam away.
In Leary, Georgia on January 6, 1969 (erroneously reported as October 1969), Carter witnessed a UFO, which was most likely the planet Venus. Robert Sheaffer did a through investigation and concluded that Carter had seen the planet Venus (Sheaffer 1986:4-12). Later, during his presidential campaign, Carter promised to release the truth about any alleged UFO cover-up.
Oh yea, and then there was the whole Iranian hostage crisis, which is probably still the biggest case of appeasing to terrorism.
killer rabbit…
February 11th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
While we’re recounting Jimmy’s low points, lets’s not forget about the infamous “malaise” speech telling us how we Americans were the problem with the country and its economic stagnation. Wrong then, wrong now.
Please Jimmy, just go away, we’ll be fine without you again.
February 12th, 2006 at 2:36 am
America’s Useful Idiots
More Americans should not die because the peace-at-any-cost fringe and antigovernment paranoids still fighting the ghost of Nixon hate President Bush more than they fear al Qaeda.
February 12th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Just “going away” would be too easy for a jerk and traitor like him.
His own Bible tells him to keep his own peace (keep his trap shut), and not to bring notoriety to himself.
Well, he not only has brought notoriety to himself, but shame to himself and his supposed nation. I say supposed because I can’t fathom anyone, especially a Christian, saying the insipid, stupid and traitorous things he has in the past few months. And it was HIS box the inscrutable Mr. Moore was in at the donkey convention in ‘04!
Thank God, literally, I am not the one to judge that liar’s soul. He wouldn’t even make burnt toast.
February 13th, 2006 at 10:03 am
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November 28th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Buy lexapro….
Buy lexapro….
June 11th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Soma….
Soma. Suicide with soma how many does it take….