Statement of Senator Russ Feingold On the President’s Comments on Censure March 21, 2006 At his press conference today, the President once again failed to tell the American people why he decided to break the law by authorizing a program to spy on Americans on American soil without court orders. Instead of offering any defense of the program’s legality, the President shamelessly played partisan politics by implying that Democrats don’t want to wiretap terrorists. That is flat-out wrong, and the President knows it. Of course we should wiretap suspected terrorists, and under current law, we can. The question is why the President believes he needs to break the law to do so.

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