Here’s a really good post by Kevin Drum that I highly recommend. Kevin points to a key issue at the heart of the NSA debate that few are engaging. In genuine ‘wartime’ presidents have immense powers. But the president is operating on a theory of war that makes our ‘wartime’ status more or less permanent. Just how ‘wartime’ are we?
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