The question I meant to ask
I never got around to posting this question, although I have asked it around my Republican friends. They could not really provide any other answer than the one that Kevin Drum does today:
I'm also more tired than you can imagine of his constant invocation of presidents from Washington to Roosevelt who authorized warrantless surveillance in wartime. All of that happened before FISA was passed in 1978 and is completely meaningless. And he knows it.
Feel safe America, knowing that your Attorney General is more willing to toe the party line than to defend the law and your freedoms.
*UPDATE* Russ Feingold takes this question directly to Gonzales.