When Bush quietly signed the "Patriot" Act this month, in addition to signing away some of our most precious freedoms, he signed an addendum that said that he didn't have to obey the law requiring him to inform congress how the FBI was using its extended police powers under the Act. This president really believes he is above the law--that it does not apply to him.

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And Congress is letting him get by with it.

In fact, the Republicans are proposing to amend FISA so as to decriminalize Bush's felonious authorization of illegal wiretapping.