We enacted a law 30 years ago making it a felony for the government to eavesdrop on us without warrants, precisely because that power had been so severely and continuously abused. The President deliberately violated that law by eavesdropping in secret. Why don't we know -- a-year-a-half after this lawbreaking was revealed -- whether these eavesdropping powers were abused for improper purposes? Is anyone in Congress investigating that question? Why don't we know the answers to that?
His big point is that Comey intimated that prior to 2004, when the illegal wiretapping program was running unchecked by DOJ, they were wiretapping everybody they wanted -- not just terrorists.
And, furthermore:
How can we possibly permit our government to engage in this behavior, to spy on us in deliberate violation of the laws which we enacted democratically precisely in order to limit how they can spy on us, and to literally commit felonies at will, knowing that they are breaking the law?
But the kicker is the letter in the Washington Post from 60 members of the Harvard law school class of 1982 to Alberto Gonzales:
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