La Loi, C'est Moi. Here's another thing that doesn't make sense from Bush's comments to journalists today about the warrantless, un court supervised spying on Americans. Why should he ever go to the FISA court at all? Since he thinks he has such vast wartime powers to do whatever he wants in violation of statutes and laws, why ever submit to quaint concepts like the rule of law? Why not just shuck the whole thing? Why should he feel any restraint to uphold any part of the FISA law? He and Harriet Miers and Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo have determined that he has the right to do whatever he feels is necessary in wartime, and the law doesn't matter. So -- what's holding him back? Why is he taking the Chinese menu approach to the law, picking and choosing what he'll abide by, and informing the American public only when the papers get ahold of the news?

(And I can't help but picturing Bush and Harriet Miers, both in their bifocals, gathered in the Oval Office with an NSA briefer carrying stacks of translated intercepts, the Urdu orders for pizza and not Chinese again, etc. I think I feel a top ten list coming on.)

Posted by Laura at December 19, 2005 03:42 PM