One other story you might be interested in on wiretaps.
Alito Defended Use of Domestic Wiretaps
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051224/ap_on_go_su_co/alito
Interesting Excerpt:
Alito’s analysis about the court and the need for an incremental legal strategy proved prescient. The case ultimately led to a 1985 ruling by the Supreme Court that the attorney general and other high level executive officials could be sued for violating people’s rights, in the name of national security, with such actions as domestic wiretaps.
“The danger that high federal officials will disregard constitutional rights in their zeal to protect the national security is sufficiently real to counsel against affording such officials an absolute immunity,” the court held.
Ummm… Did Bush’s legal team even LOOK at the ruling in this case???
