Of Warrants and Oversight

ILLUSTRATED: Simply say Bush spied on us without judges’ approval. In America we have presidents, not dictators.
Checks and Balances are one of the few things most people remember about high school civics. Warrants and evidentiary rulings are the main ways the judicial branch checks the power of the executive branch criminal investigations and prosecutions. Oversight hearings are a key ingredient of the legislative branch checking the executive. Bush has been dodging the judges and GOP Congressional leaders are looking the other way with Bush.
Terrorists are well organized, well funded, and want to harm us. Right now we don’t know what communications are coming in from overseas. The unlawfulness of Bush is not wiretapping, it’s that he did not get a warrant. Unless more revelations come out about capricious or even pernicious domestic spying come up, keep the focus on the fact that these were warrantless searches. Bush is acting like a dictator.