Bush Response

To his administration spying on Americans without judicial approval.

PRESIDENT BUSH:

Jim, we do not discuss ongoing intelligence operations to protect the country, and the reason why is that there's an enemy that lurks, that would like to know exactly what we're trying to do to stop them. I will make this point. That whatever I do to protect the American people, and I have an obligation to do so, that we will uphold the law, and decisions made are made understanding we have an obligation to protect the civil liberties of the American people.

But if we have to unilaterally take away some rights, well.... we at war, we at war, we at war