Yes, he did break a law. He broke the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act enacted in 1978, passed by Congress to give the executive branch a mechanism for keeping watch on suspected terrorists and criminals.

Since you can't be honest enough to admit even that, or are too ignorant or too uncaring to even know the law existed despite the current outrage, nothing else in your post deserves the slightest bit of attention.

Surveil? Is that a word? :hihi:

Never before has the enemy been so firmly entrenched within our own society. In just about all other wars and conflicts there was a line. A geographic area that you could narrow down the fighting to. Not today. There is no front line. We all live on the line. They, our enemy, could be your co-workers, your friends, or even your own family members. These are drastic times. They call for some drastic measures.

There is a fine line between protecting your citizens from harm and trampling on their rights. We are no where near that line.

Blah, blah, blah, blah,....blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh yeah, blah.

Bottom line, I want to be protected from terrorist.
If that means eavesdropping on people making calls to nations aiding terrorist (without a warrant), then so be it. IMO this has stopped terrorist attacks.
rexfab

Right, because it's never the neo-cons screaming 'librul' and 'terrorist' if one dares disagree. This is evidenced by your persistence to view this as Rep vs Dem in this very thread. There are noted conservatives expressing disapproval and you still can't quit making it into a partisan issue.

Yep. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=surveil

I'm certain that very similar assertions were expressed during the push for the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), the Sedition Act of 1918, or the Red Scare. This isn't the first time we've believed our enemy to share our soil.

Maybe, maybe not. But what about when we are? Things like the Patriot Act will have provided the way in. And you won't be able to do anything about it. Oppressive governments do not form overnight.

Communism was an economic and a political philosophy. Marx wrote that the individual is nothing. That led to people such as Lenin to set up a dictatorship that denied the dignity of the individual in favor of the power of the state. Communism had everything to do with people's rights, as history has clearly shown. To say that it has not is to completely ignore almost 100 years of history.

As you can see below, the PATRIOT Act has given us the authority to do these things. That is the reason it's renewal is being held up by the dems and a few moderate republicans. FISA, and it's different sections, are addressed and explained. I fail to see where the confusion is here.

Here, you read the damn thing and come back and tell me how Bush broke any laws.

http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html

You can say that you disagree with the PATRIOT Act, that's your prerogative, but don't try to make something out of nothing. The Senate and the House has read the same information that is below, and passed it twice.

You learn something new everyday. My spell check will not pick it up for some reason.

The Patroit Act allows domestic spying without a court order for a specific amount of time. It keeps the FBI from being forced to sit and wait until a court gets time to hear the evidence. Executive orders like Bush's were also done for the mob.