I'm sure Dems will do their best to commit political suicide by pressing this issue right through a massive terrorist attack. Fundamentally the American public expects any President post-9/11 to do whatever it takes to stop terrorists. Civil rights concerns be damned. Pushing legalisms only tells Americans one side is not serious about fighting terrorism. I'm sure Bush wants to be thrown into that briar patch.
Levaing aside the actual article, this is the scariest thing I've read in weeks. People actually think like this. The Volokh Conspiracy - Full Transcript of Comey Testimony on NSA Surveillance Program: |