{"id":4358,"date":"2005-12-23T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2010-07-07T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T20:50:36","slug":"cair-criticizes-president-bush-and-his-presidential-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4358","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Criticizes President Bush and his Presidential Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: December 23, 2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said the following of President Bush\u2019s post 9-11 executive order which minimized the need for a court order to wiretap al-Qaeda suspects living overseas,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch wide-ranging and unrestricted powers are an invitation to abuse our constitutional rights and freedoms, and should be of concern to everyone in a society based on respect for the law,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact the Dept. of Justice, and past administrations, have confirmed the president\u2019s inherent power to \u201cconduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes,\u201d CAIR filed a request with the CIA, the DOD, and the DOJ questioning this power.<\/p>\n<p>In its request, CAIR \u00a0sought \u201crecords concerning the \u2018authority\u2019 of President Bush to delegate or personally authorize electronic surveillance without obtaining a court order,\u201d and demanded to see \u201cany and all lists of natural persons, both American and foreign nationals, who have been or are currently being eavesdropped without proper FISA approval.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Sources: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48039\">http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48039<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48039\">(PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: December 23, 2005 Description: CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said the following of President Bush\u2019s post 9-11 executive order which minimized the need for a court order to wiretap al-Qaeda suspects living overseas, \u201cSuch wide-ranging and unrestricted powers are an invitation to abuse our constitutional rights and freedoms, and should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,123,125,128,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13","category-elected-officials","category-federal-agencies","category-foreign-policy","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}