The American Bar Association -- the same one Republicans lauded when it endorsed Alito for the Supreme Court -- told Bushie on Monday to either stop his warrantless domestic spying or get the law changed to make it legal.
Neal Sonnett, a Miami lawyer who headed the task force to look at the issue shortly after the spying program was revealed in December, stressed that they "do not say surveillance should be stopped, only that it comply with the law."
"'We are not trying to limit the President's ability to go after terrorists,' Sonnett told the group's House of Delegates before it passed his task force's resolution with relatively little debate.
'Nobody wants to hamstring the President,' he added, 'But we cannot allow the US Constitution and our rights to become a victim of terrorism,' he added."
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