Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

September 6, 2007

Legal analyst Bruce Fein is a top-rank scholar whose conservative credentials are impeccable. He served in the Justice Department under Ronald Reagan.

It is Fein's opinion that President Bush has committed ?criminal violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? by authorizing widespread warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. Under that statute, it was possible for the president to secure warrants after the fact from a very accommodating panel of judges.

But Bush refused to comply with that requirement, asserting instead that his powers as commander-in-chief transcend both the Constitution and federal statutes. By ordering the wiretaps, Fein notes, Bush committed multiple federal felonies. Thus not only impeachment, but a criminal trial, would be in order.

Fein concludes that if Bush's actions are not worthy of impeachment, ?then impeachment of the president has become a virtual dead letter.? If the president has truly escaped the restraints of the law, then our republic has likewise perished.

Let take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.