Well, this is pretty brilliant. So extreme is the President’s authorization of extra-legal monitoring of the communications of Americans without court authority or any check or balance, that a member of the FISA court itself has resigned in protest, saying the policy taints that secret court.
Ponder that: Even one of the judges sitting on the secret panel to which the Executive Branch can go effectively for a rubber stamp on surveillance activities has grave concerns over Bush’s power grab, which does an end-run even around that secret court.
Oh, what a tangled web they weave.
