Surely, today's revelations demonstrate that America is no longer a nation of laws, but only of men. The President, unable to get his Attorney General to authorize a program that was almost certainly a violation of the 4th amendment, simply changes the process overnight and has his own lawyer authorize the program. Later, he makes that same lawyer his new Attorney General so that he will never be crossed again. Apparently, wiretapping Americans phones and data mining all of our financial accounts wasn't enough, he authorized an even more questionable program that actually (!) got a rise out of a few Democrats when they learned that they had not been briefed on it (as the law requires). Further, if the intelligence estimate from the CIA doesn't justify spying on your own citizens, just have a political hack in the White House add a paragraph to the report (this enemy will probably attack inside the US again).

No matter how bad it was, our country could recover from all of it if only we had a self-correcting mechanism in place: an opposition party that would stand on the side of truth. Instead, we have a Constitutional law professor as President who is OK with wiretapping Americans as long as their is minimal oversight and who is dead set against any investigations into illegal activity. And that's just fine with Congress. What gives?

Did the Decider wiretap enough phones to get sufficient dirt on everyone that he could pull off history's greatest blackmail scheme? Are the Democrats afraid that they will see jail time themselves as accessories to crimes?

The truth will set you free. Burying your head in the sand and denial never will.