Censure Feingold  Terry Jeffrey  3/15/2006 12:05:00 AM - Terry
Jeffrey   Neither did Harry Truman.  There is a difference,
however, between the eavesdropping Roosevelt and Truman
authorized and the eavesdropping Bush is doing. Roosevelt and
Truman did it in peacetime without congressional authorization.
Bush is doing it during a war that Feingold voted on Sept. 14,
2001, to authorize.  Nonetheless, Roosevelt and Truman acted
within their constitutional authority to defend the nation
against attack. They were doing their duty, as is President
Bush.  But in the Senate on Monday, while introducing his
censure resolution, Feingold said, "The president's claims of
inherent executive authority, and his assertions that the courts
have approved this type of activity, are baseless."  FDR could
not have agreed. On May 21, 1940, the United States was at
peace, but Roosevelt wasn't taking chances. "It is too late to
do anything about it after sabotage, assassination and 'fifth
column' activities are completed," Roosevelt