What disgusts me the most about the Bush Administration is not that he authorized illegal eavesdropping on American citizens including high-profile journalists, but that he refuses to obey the law while doing it. In the everday world, police need court orders to get wire-taps and or conduct email searches. In the federal government and the intelligence community they have a seperate and secret court to get these court orders. In the event that intelligence officials need to monitor a citizen that may or may not be a threat to national security immediately, they have 72 hours after the fact to get the court order.
So not only are there easy and loopholed ways for the good guys to get the bad guys, but it's completely legal. The President, however doesn't care. The fact that he cannot admit fault here says one of two or possibly both things: The President does not care about the law and rules regardless of how easy they are to obey, or his eavesdropping is so unrelated to terrorism he knows they would never successfully acquire court orders. Including the latter would be a mirror-mistake that lead to Nixon's resignation: using taxpayer money for spying on the politcal competition.
What should also be noted is that the NSA (National Security Agency) has reported 0 (that's a "zero") arrests resulting from Bush's illegal domestic spying. And some sources lately have been reporting that allegedly Bush began the illegal surveillances prior to Sept. 11th. What would that prove? A number of things: Bush's spying has nothing to do with catching terrorists (which he not very good at anyways), and that it's solely for politcal purposes.
Click here to read up on the troops that Bush is unleashing to defend illegal domestic spying.
