Good point, GUEST AR2822... Yes, there were in place provisions for retroactive warrents... Heck, that should have been enough... Why Bush thought he would just open up the flood gates for NSA personael to purdy much have their way with whomeven they wanted in terms of spying on them and intercepting communication, is beyond logic...

Sometimes I think that Bush just wants to grap as much power as he can...Doesn't matter what it is, he just wants to have control... He a pathological conrol freek with deep seated psyhological problems...

I mean, the existing provisions of FISA, especially with the Clinton EO, gave the executive branch a lot of power... More power than any executive has enjoyed going back over 30 years... This is what Clinton handed Bush yet Bush just had to push the envelope...

Well, look where Bush;s envelope pushing has gotten the country... Unprescedented debt and and quagmire in Iraq... And a 9/11 attack which Richard Clark has plainly stated could have been avioded if Bush had been more concerned with the possibilty of a terrorist threat....

Bobert