To Wiretap or Not to Wiretap

The rhetoric needs to end over the legitimacy of the NSA wiretaps. So let's see if we can clear up where the Constitution gives the President the authority to wiretap.

US CONSTITUTION
Article II - The Executive Branch
Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States…

Article IV - The States
Section 4 - Republican government

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

And Congress authorized the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001 H.R.3162 which says:

TITLE II--ENHANCED SURVEILLANCE PROCEDURES
Sec. 201. Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism.

So let’s recap the President’s authority.
1.) He is the Commander in Chief of the Military.
2.) He has a responsibility as President of the United States to protect the states from foreign & domestic invasion.
3.) Congress under the Constitution makes laws and has authorized wiretaps under the USA Patriot Act.

If anything is criminal, it’s the Democrats & Liberals false accusations against the President who is fulfilling his Constitutional Oath of Office. It’s part of the Constitution if you bother reading it!