[oceanview]

you seem awfully confident of that - in an environemnt where a court just granted geneva protection to terrorists, ignoring article 4 of the geneva agreement.

the bottom line - the court will do whatever it damn well pleases, and whatever political biases it has - will be reflected in the decision rendered. And if it does, and it rules against the administration - WHAT HAPPENS THEN? Do we shut the program down, does the president defy it (he won't)? Do we have the votes in the Senate to authorize it (we don't, just listen to Specter)?

[tobyhill]

I'm not 100% confident even with FISA but a heck of a lot more than the SCOTUS. If FISA rules against the administration then President Bush will be impeached, congress will be forever considered traitors and Dick Cheney will be President. In other words there will be a civil war in America and the courts will be irrelevant.