All Intensive Purposes

Here's a question for Confederate Yankee and his commenters, who can't praise the President enough for deciding secretly that his office cannot be restricted by FISA if there's a war on terrorism on:

It's February, 2009, and someone in the NSA leaks to the Washington Times that President Hillary Clinton (she dropped the Rodham to get elected) has started a new program of listening in on domestic phone calls. President Clinton holds a press conference, and says that she has received (unspecified) intel that has persuaded her that terrorists inside the United States may be plotting another attack, and she needs to do whatever it takes to defend the country. Trust her. President Bush established that Article II gives her the executive power to do what she needs to do in the name of national defense, so everyone should just accept that Congress has no role here. The Washington Times is aiding the enemy by publishing leaks, but she won't comment on allegations that communications involving prominent Republicans have been intercepted.

No constitutional problem here, right? If the voters elect Hillary as commander-in-chief -- not something I'm in favor of, let's be clear -- you all think that Article II empowers her to act this way?

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