The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Whether one agreed with FISA (that was the phone conversation monitoring? was that the right acronym?)

FISA is the act (and by extension the court process defined by that act) that was circumvented to carry out the wiretapping. Perhaps there was some extrapolation as to where the ultimate endpoint was, but the fact was that the administration had already started making up their own rules and had already actively played CYA games by declaring the President above the law to do the thing it had already done by not submitting their actions to the FISA court for review.