Wire Tap

Perhaps what the Dems should do regarding the current wiretapping flap is to simply explain to the American public why the law requiring judicial review was passed in the first place. Believe it was in response to the excesses during the Nixon years. Putting it in such a context would untangle the issue from national security, link it with the impression that the president is out of control and link him with a particularly odorous group of civil rights violators.