The Law Doesn't Apply to King George.

Each day I get on the net and go to all my regular news sources (I don't read newspapers and ignore most of the rubbish on the TV) and while reading, virtually every day I'll come across another piece here or there involving the White House administration or their cronies doing something reprehensible. Each time I am aghast at the depth of this group of peoples dishonesty and hypocrisy.

On the 20th April 2004 George Bush said these exact words...
Whitehouse.gov

"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution."

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The Congressional Research Service (a nonpartisan and independent group) released a Report yesterday on the "Presidential Authority to Conduct Warrentless Electronic Survaliance to Gather Foreign Intelligence Information which analysed what the President had authorised the N.S.A to do and they found his reasoning (excuses) completely wanting and irrelevant to the legality of the eavesdropping.
To borrow a paragraph from Digby's Blog written by Glenn Greenwald ....

"The nonpartisan and independent Congressional Research Service released a Report yesterday which analysed and, in a mild though clear tone, decimated the legal theories advanced by the Administration to defend George Bush’s lawless eavesdropping."

CRS Report (pdf)