Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires-a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so.
George W. Bush, April 2004
Under this President we have seen secret prisons, torture, illegal wire-taps, surveillance of peace groups, and an unending stream of lies to the people and the Congress. Now the President, under an obscure doctrine of the "unitary executive" is determined to expand his power even further. We have had one King George in our history and George W. Bush would do well to profit by his example.
