From the making lemons into lemonade file. When Barack Obama appoints his new attorney general (I'm hoping for John Edwards) he should immediately charge him or her with using the new now legal ability of the executive branch to spy on Americans almost without limits to bug all communications by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their aides past and present.

There's ample evidence to suggest they've been working against the interests of the American people. They've worked in concert with nefarious characters who are on our terrorist watch lists like many in Maliki's government in Iraq and let's not forget Ahmed Chalibi who is accused of giving highly classified information to Iran. Under their watch billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of weapons have gone missing in Iraq, much of it suspected to have fallen into the hands of enemy insurgents, possibly even Al Qaeda.

And that's just Iraq. It doesn't take much imagination to suspect what they've been up to behind the scenes and will be with nationals of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.  

Once out of office Bush and Cheney will be looking to cash in for all those favors they've doled out to their cronies, many of them overseas.

They also very well may be interested in hamstringing President Obama with backroom deals amounting to treason.

There's plenty of reason to suspect Reagan's people, Bush's father included, had a hand in prompting Iran to declare the weekend before our electon in 1980 that they'd be willing to release our hostages only to leave Carter twisting in the wind. Releasing those hostages the day Reagan took office and his subsequent admission of trading of arms for other hostages in the Iran-Contra scandal seem to be more than just unlikely coincidences. It's where the phrase "October Surprise" originated. 

Further back in history we have Henry Kissinger and Madame Chiang Kai-shek doing Richard Nixon's bidding whispering in the ears of the South Vietnamese negotiators at the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 to reject the peace treaty LBJ put together to end the Vietnam War shortly before our election. Nixon promised them a better deal if he was elected.

There are plenty of reasons to suspect that neocons of Cheney's ilk will do what they can to undermine an Obama administration that has pledged to take American foriegn policy in a different direction from their radical empire model. They are not the kind to just pen whiny op-eds for the WaPo if they can sabotage major iniatives covertly, especially Cheney.
 
In short, they won't be morphing into choir boys, leopards don't change their spots. They also can't very well do without modern communications. 

This survellieince shouldn't be conducted with just an eye to avenge past wrongs. Bush could wave hs magic pardon wand excusing all in his administration for crimes they don't even admit are crimes and haven't even been indicted for before  leaving office obviating that path anyway. The more serious concern in any case is the ongoing danger to not just the Obama administration but to the Republic they pose. Does anybody think they wouldn't try to subvert a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement, a transition out of Iraq or a Iranian nuclear deal? 

The new AG can use the new FISA law we find so sour and make lemonade if he or she is able to finally indict, convict and imprison Bush and/or Cheney. I don't much care if they get them on the worst war crimes charges or just petty graft as long as they get them.

There will be several benefits to this. Our standing in the world will rise immediately. President Obama's approval ratings here at home will soar. If the MSM clutchs their pearls and shrieks it will only serve to marginalize them further. Sleazeballs like Curt Weldon and his arms dealings may garner the attention he deserves and earn himself a prison sentence. Most of the Republican party (and not a few Dems too) gulping at the thought of what wiretaps could reveal about them will swing 180 degrees and adopt Ron Paul and Bob Barr langauge when discussing the 4th amendment.  

In the end if Bush and/or Cheney are prosecuted using the new FISA law then in an irony of ironies, you can expect congress to quickly see the "error of their ways" and move to restrict it's use very quickly.

It's a win/ win and makes for a sweet drink from a very sour fruit.