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Daily Kos: American Bar Association To Oppose Domestic Spying

The American Bar Association, via Harris Interactive, conducted a poll this week, surveying 1,000 respondents by asking a perfectly framed question: Can the president suspend constitutional freedoms "anytime the President thinks it is necessary to protect the country"? A staggering 77% answered with a resounding NO.

The Kos post also details a policy proposal the ABA will vote on tomorrow:

• Call on the President to abide by our
  constitutional system of checks and balances and respect the roles of
  Congress and the judiciary in protecting national security consistent
  with the Constitution.
  
  
• Oppose any further electronic surveillance in U.S. for foreign
  intelligence purposes that does not comply with the Foreign
  Intelligence Surveillance Act and urge the President, if he believes
  FISA is inadequate, to seek amendment or new legislation.
  
  
• Urge Congress to affirm that the Authorization for Use of
  Military Force adopted by Congress in September 2001 did not provide an
  exception to FISA, saying such an exception must be explicit.
  
  
• Urge Congress to conduct a comprehensive, thorough
  investigation of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance
  program.
  
  
• Urge Congress to assure proceedings of that investigation are open to public.
  
  
• Urge Congress to review and make recommendations regarding intelligence oversight process.

Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it, John Gibson.

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