If Bush is right, and spying on Americans is perfectly legal, then how come the judges on his secret court are meeting to determine if it was legal?

The presiding judge of a secret court that oversees government surveillance in espionage and terrorism cases is arranging a classified briefing for her fellow judges to address their concerns about the legality of President Bush's domestic spying program, according to several intelligence and government sources.

Several members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said in interviews that they want to know why the administration believed secretly listening in on telephone calls and reading e-mails of U.S. citizens without court authorization was legal. Some of the judges said they are particularly concerned that information gleaned from the president's eavesdropping program may have been improperly used to gain authorized wiretaps from their court.

Well this just keeps getting better and better. When your secret judges from your very own espionage courts are worried that you might have broken the law, then you have to know that the hot water you are in just went up several degrees. (God I love a good run-on sentence!)

Well let's give the President the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe the restrictions of this court were just too stringent to get wiretaps okayed expediently.

One government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the administration complained bitterly that the FISA process demanded too much: to name a target and give a reason to spy on it.

Okay well that doesn't seem like that would be that hard to work around. What could be the other reason? I know you are dying to know what my guess is, aren't you? Okay here it is. I think that whoever they wanted wiretaps against was not somebody that the courts would have agreed with. Now who could that be? I cannot imagine that the courts would not okay a legitimate wiretap against a potential threat to this country. So I would have to imagine that the wiretaps were for the phones of individuals that the administration wanted to listen in on but did not fall into the category of a threat. Like maybe a political adversary? Or an overly zealous news reporter? Or maybe a highly intelligent political blogger? Uh....hold on....I have to...uh check my phones real quick.