"Congress EXPLICITLY REJECTED The Specific Authority BUSH Now Claims he was Implicitly Given," speaketh Atrios.

Yesss... Grasshopper, Atrios is wise, and Eschaton is wisdom... [and good links!]

The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority "in the United States" in negotiations over the joint resolution passed days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to an opinion article by former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) in today's Washington Post...Daschle's disclosure challenges[TJ-edit: "destroys"] a central legal argument offered by the White House...
in defense of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and permanent residents. It suggests that Congress refused explicitly to grant authority that the Bush administration now asserts is implicit in the resolution....

Doesn't matter if Daschle's a Pink Fairy, or whatever YOU SAID, [{;-)], He was the Leader of the Senate (maj./ min.), so they had to tell him stuff.

(W.H. requests a MULLIGAN?)
Karl? Cancel that trip
to the Hamptons!
-Herb.