[This might be the first administration since the 16th century Jesuits to codify crossing your fingers into a politico-legal philosophy]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/washington/02intel.html
The New York Times
May 2, 2007
Administration Pulls Back on Surveillance Agreement
By JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, May 1 Senior Bush administration officials told Congress on
Tuesday that they could not pledge that the administration would
continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic
wiretapping program, as it agreed to do in January.
Rather, they argued that the president had the constitutional authority
to decide for himself whether to conduct surveillance without warrants.
Rest at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/washington/02intel.html
Michael