Tuesday, May 9, 2006
No, not the Washington Post's illicit domestic spying program, but...well, take a look:
In short, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt charted a bold course in defending the nation's security in 1940, when he did all of these things...
...As with so many issues central to the global war on terror in which the need for security must be balanced against individual liberties, there is no fool-proof answer to the questions raised by the NSA's surveillance program. Yet broad sections of the left have personalized this debate around President Bush. Their hatred and distrust of Bush drives them to see the administration's actions in the worst light possible. To that extent, it's important to understand how President Roosevelt -- a paragon of the left -- dealt with similar problems...
Very interesting article by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Adam White in The American Spectator: FDR's Domestic Surveillance.
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