Risking the safety of the nation all for the expressed purpose of regaining power. That's what all this is about.
Bush has been quiet on one of the main problems with FISA.
Under FISA you need so many top administration officials to sign off on it and the attorney general to personally go down to the court for a warrant.
How can you fight a war when the intelligence agents in the field need to be worried if they are making the right decision by having to bother the attorney general each time they want to listen to a conservation from overseas from a terrorist to the u.s.
Also the terrorist survallience program allows you to not have to meet a very high threshold like fisa.
Judges shouldn't be fighting wars. In 2000 a judge stopped clinton from getting warrants and clinton agreed.