and a very disappointing amount of focus on this issue presently. How can pressure be brought to bear on Congress so that it will act on this matter?

That in the limited time that I watched Gonzo testify, and on Frontline last night, I keep hearing these people refer to "this program" or "the program we're talking about here". This leads me to believe, as someone else stated on Frontline, that there are other spy programs out there that no one knows about.

What do you want to bet that when Bush said to fix the NSA program that he just shifted any parts that were dropped to some other illegal and totally secret network. Call me paranoid........but......

As mentioned several times in your post, all we can do is speculate as to what the program enatails and how it has been used. In a functioning democracy, this would be unthinkable, but of course we haven't had a functioning democracy for quite awhile.

My point is that the controversy exists completely independently of how anyone feels about aggressive eavesdropping and data mining. The overuse of the word "enemies" in the debates that have taken place and that will inevetably follow. Point to the actual problem. WHO is the enemy. I've cited GreenPeace and PETA in the past as organizations that certainly have justification to be worried.

In all this...where are the journalists?

A good faith argument to enforce the Commander in Chief’s warpowers is not “lawlessness” since EVERY WARTIME PRESIDENT IN HISTORY has had the power to spy on the enemy. Especially if the ROBERTS Court approved.

If you had been paying attention, son, you'd know from the outset this nonsense of "power to spy on the enemy" was never the damned issue.

The issue is that the President has ordered surveillance programs enacted that have been judged as operating OUTSIDE the legal authority of the Executive Branch as defined by both US Code and the Constitution of the United States!

In short, the President is knowingly and deliberately breaking the law.

What, precisely, is so difficult to grasp about that?

lacks the brains or spine to impeach these thugs and that's the only word that should be used, even for the Decider-thug, can someone bring RICO charges? This is exactly the situation that RICO is now used in.

A good faith argument to enforce the Commander in Chief’s warpowers is not “lawlessness” since EVERY WARTIME PRESIDENT IN HISTORY has had the power to spy on the enemy. Especially if the ROBERTS Court approved.