SPECTER IS THROWING A HISSY FIT...
He said that they never MEANT for Bush to be able to wiretap during their permission to go to war?????
WHOA...Specter just drew a major line in the sand.
He also implied that they would impede Bush if he ever came to Congress to get help on the WOT. He doesn't care about America just his own importance.
That's another pitfall in the "AUMF authorizes this" argument. Quite a few Republican Senators have expressed the same sort of "misgiving." Another way this argument is phrased is that "If the President is going to 'misconstrue' or 'extend' Congressional acts, you can bet we'll be circumspect about granting him any authority."