"I can't for the life of me understand why the Administration didn't just use FISA, instead of going the rout of this questionably legal Executive Order."
Chances are that the dems have loaded this court with a bunch of anti-american leftists over the years...lol
Actually they amazingly haven't. Of 20,000 requets for wiretaps, the FISA court has rejected a grand total of 5. It's probably the best court in the US.