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BACKWARDS ENFORCEMENT
 

(May 25, 2006) Article I, Section I of the U.S. Constitution states that "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States." Article II, Section 3 states that the President shall "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."

Thus, for the executive branch, rather than take care that those laws be faithfully executed, to authorize a program that expressly violates those laws, is a rather extreme step.  But the administration has, apparently, gone a few steps further. 

The FBI is now allegedly seeking to interview parties of Congress to see if they leaked information regarding the administration's "potentially" unconstitutional NSA wiretap program (the same Constitution that the administration now argues that only it, in essence, has the authority to interpret, and to apply.) 

The administration engaged in a potentially unconstitutional activity, in express violation of a statute, and now it is using its own enforcement powers, not to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" under Article II, but to take care that Congress does and did not disclose potential violations of those laws, and potential constitutional violations, to the people of the United States. 

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