McCain flip-flopping on wiretaps

eavesJohn McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, despite a 1978 federal statute that required court oversight of surveillance, one of his top advisers said. But that’s not what McCain said just six months ago, the New York Times reported. McCain told the Boston Globe that “presidents have the obligation to obey and enforce laws that are passed by Congress and signed into law by the president, no matter what the situation is.” And when asked specifically whether a statute trumped a president’s powers as commander in chief when it came to a surveillance law, McCain said, “I don’t think the president has the right to disobey any law.”