21
Dez
2005

The Truman precedent for Bush's eavesdropping

Boston Globe
by Peter S. Canellos

12/20/05

On the morning of April 9, 1952, American flags flew above 88 steel mills across the country, signaling a change in management. The president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, had seized control of the mills, claiming that the intransigence of the private owners would lead to a strike that would cripple US efforts to win the Korean War. 'The president has the power to keep the country from going to hell,' Truman told his staff, according to David McCullough's 1992 biography. Truman was wrong, according to the Supreme Court, in its most extensively reasoned decision charting the limits of presidential power. The so-called 'steel seizure case' is suddenly in the news again because President Bush is now saying that his powers as president and commander-in-chief -- the justifications cited by Truman -- permit him to authorize wiretaps on US citizens...

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