Feel The Hum

Digby has a post up about "Sean Patrick Maloney, a former senior Clinton White House official and investigative attorney running for the Democratic nomination for New York Attorney General" and his plan to file a complaint in Federal court. Read it here:

The complaint would seek a federal court order requiring the Bush Administration to comply with the law. The plan does not stop, compromise or hamper ongoing operations but instead compels the Bush Administration to appear in federal court, in secret session, to show cause for wiretapping any citizens of New York

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People from all over the country, in different ways and using different approaches are challenging this adminstration's lawlessness and abuse of power. It's not enough to just win at the ballot box. A requirement that our leaders must adhere to the rule of law must be affirmed in no uncertain terms, and the specifics of Bush's power grab must be repudiated.

Members of the Bush adminstration who were around in the 70's and 80's (the "grown-ups") waited for many years to gain power and re-assert these principles of executive authority which we thought were succesfully legally proscribed (with laws such as FISA) after Nixon. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. These radical, undemocratic, unAmerican ideas need to have a final stake driven through them. This is not a monarchy, even at war.