85 - War On Terrorism Truths: More Of BTR's Interview With Bush-Bashing Conservative Scholar / Email: A Listener Starts Converting A Right-Winger!

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🗓️ 15 March 2007

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Bruce Fein, a conservative scholar who's none too happy with George Bush, makes these three points in the concluding part of our interview:1. the threat level from terrorism is not insignificant, but nowhere near the threat levels we faced in WWII or the Cold War; 2. civil liberties violations are clearly not justified by any such honest evaluation of the threat level; and 3. the civil liberties

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 85 of Blast the Right.
0:24.0	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRatical.com, www.TheRationalRatical.com.
0:31.1	Today we'll start off by listening to the conclusion of my interview with that conservative
0:35.9	bush-bashing scholar Bruce Fine, what he has to say may again surprise you.
0:42.2	Then at long last, some will listen to a email, we'll learn about an at least partial conversion
0:48.0	of a right-winger.
0:49.8	Also, in the announcements at the end, I'll have some information about a Blast the Right
0:54.9	Live call and show, so stick around for that, let's get right into it.
1:00.9	My sources are The Toronto Star, USA Today, and The British Newspaper The Guardian.
1:08.9	In podcast 81 we heard the beginning of my interview with conservative constitutional
1:14.1	lawyer Bruce Fine, he's been an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
1:19.5	and a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation.
1:22.6	He's a commentator on mainstream media outlets and has testified before Congress on constitutional
1:28.8	law issues.
1:29.8	Here's the main point Bruce Fine made in podcast 81.
1:34.2	Bush basically has said, I can dispatch my troops anytime, any place, anywhere, I don't
1:40.6	need any authority from Congress, and that tacitly suggests that even if Congress sought
1:47.4	to use the power of the purse to end our presence or to prevent carrying the war in Iraq and
1:54.2	to Iran, the president, if he said it's important to national security, could go ahead and
2:01.3	violate that congressional limitation and expand the war.
2:06.0	These words were not spoken by a bush-hating loony leftist.
2:10.3	No, it was this heavily credentialed conservative constitutional scholar who said he would not
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