Surprise, surprise.  Newly released documents show that the Justice Department was scrambling to find justification for their illegal NSA spying program only after it was publicly disclosed.  In fact the Department's top security adviser new nothing of the program before details were made public.  Now we know why Specter refused to swear in Alberto Gonzales; he was lying to the committee.

What's Congress' response to all this?  How about just "changing the laws":http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/08/politics/main1380996.shtml to make the program legal.  It boggles the mind.
"A Slightly After-The-Fact Quality"

In his correspondence, Kris, who was the DOJ's top national security lawyer from 2000-2003, concludes that the President's actions are subject to FISA, and that the justifications for the program have a "slightly after-the-fact quality" to them. It appears that the Department of Justice reached out to Kris after the program was disclosed in order to shape its legal defense. Naturally, the best time to do legal analysis on a program is after it is disclosed and starts causing the President's poll numbers to free-fall.

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If you tune into CSPAN 2 right now you'll find Debra Burlingame shilling for Bush.  Her husband was the pilot of  flight 77 on September 11th.  It is sad that the bar is so low for this Administration that nobody is surprised that a 911 widow is their centerpiece of a hearing on the legal and constitutional intricacies of FISA law.  Orrin Hatch is continuing his love fest with Abu Gonzales -- all you need to know: Without this program, the terrorists will be under your bed at night.