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INHERENT POWER. An authority possessed without its being derived from another. It is a right, ability or faculty of doing a thing, without receiving that right, ability or faculty from another. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Claimed that the president has the inherent power as commander in chief to order the secret surveillance of the international e-mail and telephone conversations of U. As the 1978 Senate Judiciary Committee report stated, FISA "recognizes no inherent power of the President in this area. As John Schmidt, a former associate attorney general for Bill Clinton, wrote in the Chicago Tribune, after the NSA story broke, "Every president since FISA's passage has asserted that he retained inherent power to go beyond the act's terms. |
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