This is a joke.Take a poll of the senate to see how many want to do away with program.They want the program but they also want to make the president look bad. Why did't the senators breifed on this program say something? Now they want Bush to say he lied and then they can write a law saying the same thing that Bush was doing is fine. I still think that people need to get over George Bush beating there butts in two elections and quite wasting tax payers money and helping our ememy.

Stop unwarranted spying on American citizens. It’s magical thinking to believe that even if we wanted to we could trade our freedom from illegal search and seizure for safety from terrorism.
Whether the fourth amendment to The Constitution is abrogated by this administration or it obeys the law and uses the FISA court to oversee the surveillance of Americans, we still have a vicious enemy. Anywhere we have to fight against terrorists they will exact a bloody toll. Whether this is a toll of American lives on our homeland or abroad, whether they are official representatives or average people; it will be heartbreaking.
My loss of the ability to go about my life free of unwarranted and unsupervised spying on my communications, records and person would be an additional burden; unsupportable, intolerable.

The President and his defenders says the only calls that are monitored are international and where at least 1 party has a connection with terrorists. But this ignores the fact that at the time any communication is initiated, there is NO way to tell who is on either end. The call must be collected, recorded and analyzed by someone or some tool in order to determine the nature of the call and maybe get a hint as to who is calling whom, particularly in an age of inexpensive, disposable and pay-as-you-go cell phones almost anywhere in the world.

What a joke have Gonzalez testify. Remember this is the guy that was the architect for the justification of torture and some of the worst elements of the Patriot Act. This guy believes the President can make his own rules and if they say those rules are legal often enough, the American public will believe them. Speaking on cronyism! This guy takes the cake. The Bypassing of FISA means no one knows who Bush and friends have been listening to. Are they listening to war protestors, political opponents, reporters? Who knows. In an emergency Bush has 72 hours before he needs to report to the FISA court after listening. That takes away the argument for the need to act quickly. Bush LIED about covert listening during a speech and told his audience he needed a court order giving him permission. HE LIED!!

If the president is going to use the term " we are at war " to defend his spying on the American public, then why did he cut off the combat and hazardous duty pay for the troops? Is'nt war hazardous duty that may require combat at sometime? It did for me in VietNam back in 1969!