Even George Will says it's wrong -" Why Didn't He Ask Congress?"

Even George Will says it's wrong.

George Will. Think about that for a sec.

In his column today, he bent himself double doing all kinds of rhetorical and linguistic gymnastics to avoid sounding too critical. But when it got right down to it, he couldn't defend it.

"A mistake." Well, I would say a crime. But it's a start.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/20/9408/0642

Why Didn't He Ask Congress?
By George F. Will
Tuesday, December 20, 2005; Page A31

On the assumption that Congress or a court would have been cooperative in September 2001, and that the cooperation could have kept necessary actions clearly lawful without conferring any benefit on the nation's enemies, the president's decision to authorize the NSA's surveillance without the complicity of a court or Congress was a mistake. Perhaps one caused by this administration's almost metabolic urge to keep Congress unnecessarily distant and hence disgruntled.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121900975.html

dead cold.

He has basically abandoned him, according to what he says when he speaks on Newshour; hasn't had much good to say since before Katrina and the Miers nomination, actually.

like him? He creats a gentle mist but it is Fog none the less.

maximum kerfluffle krap to fog the issue. Another favor for the guys who cut him a check as a consultant is my guess. Meanwhile Bill Kristol does what's in the Kaiser's best interest.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121901027.html

"This is presumably one reason why President Bush decided that national security required that he not simply follow the strictures of the 1978 foreign intelligence act, and, indeed, it reveals why the issue of executive power and the law in our constitutional order is more complicated than the current debate would suggest. It is not easy to answer the question whether the president, acting in this gray area, is "breaking the law." It is not easy because the Founders intended the executive to have -- believed the executive needed to have -- some powers in the national security area that were extralegal but constitutional."

Yeah Kristol - extralegal but constitutional - Leon Trotsky smiles.

Did you see him on This Week? He was attacking Bush while Kokie and the rest nodded in agreement.

Probably the most stupid question I ever saw...

"Why Didn't He Ask Congress?" He couldn't ask congress, because he was spying on THEM TOO!