The Sunshine Empire

When the fact that the Bush Administration had been monitoring the communications of Americans in violation of the Foreign Intelligence surveillance act, many conservatives fought viciously back saying that the program was needed, and that it had produced results.  Nowhere in the defense was a claim that it was not illegal, just that the program’s need trumped that and the President has the ability to sidestep the law.  But now we read today that the program had limited results.  So now we are left with a useless bypassing of the law, and also the revision to the law that was done out of apparently no apparent need or result.  But this argument will continue to be political.  If Bill Clinton’s White House had been involved in the same actives the Republican’s would have started hearings yesterday.