You are not following anyone's "lead" you sound like a broken record, constantly find an excuse to keep saying that President Bush broke the law, but you have NO EVIDENCE, because he did NOT break the law.
The point I was making, very obviously, that in the pre-9-11 world they were treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue, punishing the guilty, IF and when we catch, them, AFTER the committed their crime. AFTER 9-11 it became clear to most people, that the stakes are so high, that waiting until AFTER the terrorist act was committed is TOO LATE, several thousand lives and now potentially several hundred thousand lives too late. That's why the President asked for and got the Patriot Act.
The president's duty is to protect our lives and the country. You are interested in protecting the terrorists and bringing down President Bush.
An excellent editorial, which hits the nail on the head, regarding what's at stake:
"Top Secret" Front Page News
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547918/posts
A big part of the problem, as Frank Gaffney and his collaborative authors (full disclosure: I made a small contribution) explain in the new book War Footing, is that one of the greatest challenges facing America today is the inability – or denial – of a large number of Americans to face the fact that we are actually at war. Many on the Left actively deny existence of such a war. They speak and behave as if al-Qaeda were a criminal gang running wild.
The phony indignation is about a clandestine, highly productive operation intended to thwart another terrorist attack on America. The president authorized limited, tightly controlled electronic eavesdropping by the NSA on terrorist supporters’ calls overseas to terrorists. The president consulted frequently with the Congress. He reviewed the program every few months. This is done in order to prevent another attack and since we have not had an attack since 9/11, this limited program has been effective. In return, the opposition talks hysterically of impeachment.
Now that this program has been exposed, you can rest assured – just as Hitler would have instantly changed his codes had he known about ULTRA – bin Laden, Zawahari, and other terrorists have already changed their methods of communications, making intercepting their plans for future attacks that much more difficult. Suppose NSA analysts caught them talking about bringing a dirty bomb into the U.S.? Or perhaps how they could effectively distribute weaponized anthrax around the country? Are leftists really content to miss that intelligence information on the absurd hypothetical that some innocent grandmother’s cell phone privacy might have been violated?
The Founders did not draft the Constitution to be a suicide pact. "
At least broken records are consistent. You on the other hand are all over the map. You're saying that he didn't break the law, yet at the same time justifying his actions by inisting that the law was inadequate to our needs.