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So, you actually think it was “illegal” for every wartime President to spy on the enemy within our own borders, huh? How about when FDR shipped off all those Japanese-Americans to internment camps? You don’t think it would take a legal genius to realize said program was illegal either? Well, think again –- Korematsu v. U.S.: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=323&invol=214
Stick to science, son.