'No one, not even the president, is above the law'.

• Author: Herbert, Bob
• Position: OPINION

It has become fashionable to say that the controversy surrounding President Bush's domestic spying program is about the problem of balancing civil liberties and national, security. But I think the real issue is Bush's apparent belief that he can do anything he wants, and justify it in the name of fighting terror. Bush and others in the administration have argued that the President's wartime powers trump some of the important constitutional, guarantees and civil liberties that Americans had previously taken for granted. But they don't seem to see the irony of fighting on behalf of liberty in Afghanistan and Iraq white curtailing precious liberties here at...