An insightful and well-researched expose by Elizabeth de la Vega on the madness that is Bush administration rationale for spying powers on Americans and unaccountable executive power.

When it comes to the Bush administration, whatever the subject may be and however bad you think things are, they’re going to be at least several fallback positions worse than whatever top administration officials may be fessing up to at any given moment. This, after all, is the administration of adamant denials, followed by forceful non-confessions, followed by proud statements, followed by limited hang-outs , followed by even more grudging, only slightly less limited hang-outs.

The Bush administration, Flip….

An article, dated March 8, 2006, entitled “Gonzales: NSA Program Doesn’t Need a Law.” The article says: “The Attorney General made clear Wednesday, March 8, that the White House is not seeking congressional action to inscribe the National Security Agency’s monitoring into US law.”

Flop…

I now refer you to Exhibit B - a February 28, 2006 letter from Alberto Gonzales to Arlen Specter, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In answer to a question about what changes to FISA are needed, Gonzales explicitly says, “The Administration believes it is unnecessary to amend FISA” to accommodate the spying program.

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