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I don't know if you saw it, but I saw Bush admit that he had ordered wiretaps without consulting the FISA Court. Saw it on TeeVee. My God, Pelosi, the shithead admitted it on television. It's and Open and Shut case for impeachment. What could be the defense? "I thought I had a good reason to do it." Everyone who breaks the law thinks they have a good reason to do it. And if he says, "he had to; it was an emergency" then a) he's got to prove that in an open court called the US Senate, and b) even if they do, it doesn't mean anything because the FISA law allows the government to wiretap suspects IMMEDIATELY and then seek approval ex post facto (the Gov has 48 hours to call the court into session but can act immediately if they feel the situation warrents it). What Bush did was to order wiretaps and then ignore the law and the court so that they could continue without oversight. That is a breech of the law. That is way more than a "misdemeanor." How could anyone be fed such a fat pitch and then, not only not hit it out of the ballpark, but refuse to even swing at it?
