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The enumerated powers clause does not authorize the NSA, so effectively, everything they do is unconstitutional.
by MCRed 12y ago
The enumerated powers clause does not authorize the NSA, so effectively, everything they do is unconstitutional.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> The enumerated powers clause does not authorize the NSA, The NSA is a foreign signals intelligence service principally, though not exclusively, supporting the military. I don't really see any argument that the existence of the NSA -- however much the case may be made of particular activities of the NSA violating various provisions of the Constitution -- is any less within the purview of Art. I Sec. 8 enumerated powers (particularly, the power to "raise and support armies") than any other non-uniformed part of the military support structure in the US government.