Rattle wrote:

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

This should be examined further. Bush took an oath to uphold that "goddamned piece of paper." Even in a fit of anger, making a statement like that is going way too far.

Update: More about this fellow's sources here. I hope some more media outlets look into this. I have trouble buying into any story where the single point of failure is one reporter and media outlet I know little about.

Well, a rustling in the wind says that Bush signed some orders for wiretaps that neither he nor the agency involved were legally allowed to perform (even with the Patriot Act) and it's recently been uncovered that we had a _secret prison_ in Afghanistan which isn't likely to have any kind of oversight at all, so this doesn't really suprise me. It's very clear that Bush feels that his power is Absolute Power.

RE: Capitol Hill Blue: Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'