Reagan Would Have Ordered Terrorist Surveillance

Ronald Reagan's well known Attorney General, Edwin Meese III, has written an article describing how he believes Reagan would have handled one aspect of the legal war against terrorists. He writes, in part:

President Reagan believed that fidelity to the Constitution was the primary responsibility of every public official and that the solemn oath he took to preserve and protect our Founding Charter was a solemn trust. But he knew the document thoroughly and understood the powers it conferred on a President as well as the limitations it prescribed.

The President's unitary executive power should be used to implement programs such as the terrorist surveillance program the New York Times disclosed last year. These programs are an important tool in the legal arena and have undoubtedly led to the capture of terrorists and/or the disruption of a terror plot. It would be irresponsible for an executive to not exercise this Constitutionally granted power.

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