Up to No Good

This sounds about right to me:

It's not, after all, as if the current congress is wildly hostile to GOP priorities or super-solicitous American civil liberties. It's certainly possible that everything's fine here and Bush decided to break the law just 'cuz he's lazy or something, but I'd say we have a reasonable basis for assuming that this is not-so-benign and that's why it was kept all hush-hush and outside the law.