The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/us/politics/06mccain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin) reports his latest national security fiasco: after telling the Boston Globe approximately six months ago that the President must obey the duly enacted wiretap law, the presumptive GOP nominee now says that the President can do anything he wants to catch the radicals.
Updated by adding quotations below:
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A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed by the Bush administration legal team.
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In an interview about his views on the limits of executive power with The Boston Globe six months ago, Mr. McCain strongly suggested that if he became the next commander in chief, he would consider himself obligated to obey a statute restricting what he did in national security matters.
Mr. McCain was asked whether he believed that the president had constitutional power to conduct surveillance on American soil for national security purposes without a warrant, regardless of federal statutes.
He replied: "There are some areas where the statutes don’t apply, such as in the surveillance of overseas communications. Where they do apply, however, I think that presidents have the obligation to obey and enforce laws that are passed by Congress and signed into law by the president, no matter what the situation is."
McSame's advisors say that his position has been consistent, Jonah Goldberg praises him for his welcome "evolution." Unchained from legal requirements (such as the need for a declaration of war), McSame can deploy all of the soldiers that have been withdrawn from Iraq (now that we're down to pre-surge levels) to chase Al-Qaeda operatives into Iran, where they're being trained, if his proposed sanctions (which he was against last year when Obama proposed them with 30 co-sponsors, including 9 Republicans and Lieberman) and song-writing don't cause Iran to submit.
It's a good thing everyone knows for sure that McSame is an unrivaled expert in national security, because otherwise his credibility would be severly damaged by everything he says and does.