A slap for a hand in the cookie jar.
The truth of the matter is FISA is pretty clear. Get a warrant. And despite his refusal to give any details into the program and assertions that he was authorized to act in such a manner, he didn't get a warrant and he was wrong.
The thing is because no one willing to give any details, we really don't know how bad he's been trampling our liberties. I think when all is said and done, we'll see that this program based on modern technology did create some issues that were unforeseen when FISA was written almost 30 years ago. It probably involves some data mining into legitimate terrorist threats that tangentially skirted FISA (okay, maybe I'm just being naive as to Junior's purposes). If he had given the FISA court a chance to review this, fine. If he had asked Congress to amend the law, fine. Instead he pretended the law didn't apply to him.
So, Senator Feingold's idea of a censure is pretty good. He violated the law. He continues to stonewall Congress. Censure him. This by itself probably isn't impeachable, but given his overall record, I wouldn't mind that either.
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