The main point in this paper is to suggest that technology is primarily responsible for expanding presidential war powers since 1957. Technology allows raw intelligence data to be personally reviewed by the president. In the 1960s, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations concentrated war powers in the cabinet because of new satellite surveillance. My hypothesis is that the Bush administration is similarly concentrating the war powers in the cabinet through new computer surveillance...
So, computer regulations could stop renegade presidents, and restore a balance of power between the three branches? Interesting...
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