A clear and thorough argument debunking the arguments being put forth by the Presidents lawyers and the Right Wing pundits giving him the right to Spy on Americans.

“Anyone who wants to see just how clear the legal issues really are here — just how plain it is that, as most people likely know intuitively, the President does not have the right to engage in conduct which the Congress prohibits under the criminal law — should read the Supreme Court’s opinion in Youngstown. It is a clear, straightforward, and easy to understand opinion because the Justices evidently realized that they were articulating the basic principles of how the rule of law — rather than Executive lawlessness — is what governs our country and keeps it stable and just. And it literally obliterates every argument head-on which is being advanced now by Bush defenders who are trying to bestow him with the power of law-breaking.”

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: The Bush justifications for law-breaking (con’t)