According to USA Today, the government made 18,761 request for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens between 1979 and 2004. Only five requests were rejected. Fewer than 100 had to be modified.

The assertion that the President Bush had to break the law because getting a FISA warrant would have been too slow or burdensome is simply false.

Presdent Bush willfully broke the law, and now he’s lying about his motives. And, just for good measure, he’s also casting blame for his own transgressions onto the poor luckless Democrats in Congress: “It’s their fault because they didn’t stop me! Maybe you should investigate them.”