AP Exclusive: NSA weighed ending phone program before leak
http://www.tricities.com/news/ap-exclusive-nsa-weighed-ending-phone-program-before-leak/article_47400b79-6197-577d-a1d9-dce6ab6a192c.html
OK, I'm not getting this.
The president, the head of the executive branch, the guy who says he has unilateral authority to start wars and assassinate American citizens - inside the US - the guy who 'has a cell phone and a pen' and makes law through executive order.
That guy - he can't tell an executive branch agency what not to do?
Isn't he supposed to be some sort of 'constitutional scholar' or something?
"Yet the president has insisted that legislation is required to adopt his proposal, and Congress has not acted"
OK, I'm not getting this.
The president, the head of the executive branch, the guy who says he has unilateral authority to start wars and assassinate American citizens - inside the US - the guy who 'has a cell phone and a pen' and makes law through executive order.
That guy - he can't tell an executive branch agency what not to do?
Isn't he supposed to be some sort of 'constitutional scholar' or something?