Hey King Dubya, Why bother with the PATRIOT ACT???

Here's my point, If you are arguing that you have the right to snoop on Americans even thought the law clearly prohibits it. Why bother with the PATRIOT ACT. After all, what is the PATRIOT ACT but a series of Laws which you claim are designed to help fight "The War on Terra", as you refer to it. In the case of FISA laws, you argue that you can ignore the laws because you are in fact fighting "The War on Terra".

If you are correct in your assertion that you can circumvent laws established by COngress due to your executive authority, then whether the PATRIOT ACT is there or not you can pretty much do whatever you want already.

There are provisions in the PATRIOT ACT which require you to get a warrant (albeit a rubberstamp warrant but a warrant nonetheless) for particular investigative actions such as searches and wiretaps. If, as in your current actions, you are
claiming that these investigations are part of the "War on Terra", then just as the FISA laws, you can ignore PATRIOT ACT laws also.

Further, you are now making the same argument for torture claiming that you can ignore the torture laws. Why did VP Cheney lobby Congress so hard for those laws if you believe that you can ignore them. Is this a case of you trying to get laws and then deciding that you will do as you please when you could not get the Legislative Branch to approve your request?

It must be nice to be the King?