Domestic spying

It is really repulsive to watch the Bush administration attempt to defend the indefensible practice of using the NSA to monitor American citizens. Apparently the foreign intelligence court that was created by FISA in 1978 (in response to over-zealous domestic spying during the cold war) is basically a rubber stamp, but Bush couldn't even accept this minimal level of oversight. This is just the latest evidence of Cheney's mission to re-establish the balance between executive power and Congressional power, which he believes shifted too far toward Congress after Watergate. But limiting executive power is virtually the entire purpose of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As always, I feel that Bush and his minions just do not believe that the law applies to them. It's scary and infuriating. Unfortunately most Americans are too involved in the consumeristic frenzy called Christmas to even notice.