Leaktaker

Should the President of the United States, whoever he is, by nature of being elected to a four year term by the people, be able to eavesdrop on the telephone calls of any American citizen he so chooses? Should it only be when he suspects they are somehow connected to terrorist activity?

What if he's the only one who believes it, or says he does. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. If he doesn't, if it's all an act for some other purpose, if his motives are impure, should those under him be required to follow his orders no matter what?

Should he be able to detain any American citizen that he avers, in public or private, to be a terrorist or aiding and abetting terrorists (Islamic? Northern Irish?) without any extra-Presidential, extra-Party oversight or accountability? Should he be able to order that American citizen taken from his or her home and flown to a hidden detention facility in another country? Does that chain of events automatically make it okay (and legal) to torture that citizen?

Should any elected or unelected (succession) U.S. President be able to, whenever he or she finds it politically expedient, blow the cover of an American citizen who has given their life in undercover service to their country, taken great risks to serve a government institution purported to protect our liberty?

Should such a President be able to do, like, electricity and pass that authority to anyone he or she wants? And should that person be somehow "vested" with the authority to have a third person blow the cover of that American citizen civil servant? Is that a Constitutional power of, say, a Vice President, that second leg of electricity?

Should our United States of America President, him or her, have the authority to personally shoot or kill anyone they want if they say that they believe this person is a terrorist? Does that have to be in time of war? Can the President declare wartime, kinda trumping the United States Congress' Constitutional authority just by saying so?

Should the President be able to sign anything he/she wants into law regardless of it being passed by Congress? Can he rule by decree, like in wartime? Should he?

Should the President be able to tell the guy next to him, maybe the Vice President, "Hey, shoot that guy right now, he's a terrorist," and the Vice President can shoot the guy or tell his underling to do it? And there's no punishment if they're wrong?

Is it true, as Richard Nixon said on the way to resigning amidst the biggest Presidential scandal in U.S. history, that "if the President does it, it's legal?"

Like a king?

Should it be?

If the President is out walking around downtown with his Secret Service detail and decides he or she just wants to take a leak on someone, maybe saying they're terrorist trash or are helping terrorists or hurting our chances of going to war, maybe the President is drunk or coked or mentally ill, maybe the President just likes being a son of a bitch, should this President be allowed to lay a long steaming yellow stream on that U.S. citizen?

Maybe a foreigner? Especially if it's a time of war or President He/She says it is?

Should that be legal?

Is it already?

Is that breaking the law?