From: John Cuccia 

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:34:57 -0500, Monte Davis
 wrote:

>"Phil Payne"  wrote:
>
>>They wouldn't have had a story at all if someone hadn't created it for them
>>by breaking the law.
>
>Hold that thought, as the right is spinning itself into a frenzy about
>the *EVIL MOTIVES* behind the story... in a desperate effort to
>distract people from the story itself.

Not all of the right. Here's George Will:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121900975
.html
The president's authorization of domestic surveillance by the National
Security Agency contravened a statute's clear language.

and....

On the assumption that Congress or a court would have been cooperative in
September 2001, and that the cooperation could have kept necessary actions
clearly lawful without conferring any benefit on the nation's enemies, the
president's decision to authorize the NSA's surveillance without the
complicity of a court or Congress was a mistake. Perhaps one caused by this
administration's almost metabolic urge to keep Congress unnecessarily
distant and hence disgruntled.

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