Abusing the top secret FISA process for sordid “political” ends is as bad as or worse than any scandal in our history. FISA is given extraordinary powers only for the purpose of protecting our national security against terrorism and the worst international agents. Employing the powers granted by FISA to undermine domestic political opponents, regardless of the pretense of “legality”, is WORSE than anything Nixon did (and after all, nothing about the Watergate break-in itself was ever traced to Nixon, only the “cover up” of trying to avoid embarrassment to his admin.).