"His claims to be strongly committed to civil liberties are simply not credible, given that the plain reading of the law would clearly hold Bush's actions illegal under both the Fourth Amendment and FISA, and to hold otherwise requires gymnast-like contortions of the law made by such well-known dispassionate supporters of civil liberties as Hugh 'Harriet Miers is a solid B+' Hewitt and Mark 'Who are you gonna believe about the government's torture reports, me or someone who's read them?' Levin"