"While the OIG carries out this investigation, lawmakers in Congress must conduct their own oversight regarding this illegal program. They must also reject any attempt to sanction this unconstitutional program or provide immunity to those telecommunications companies that violated the law when they gave our private information to the government without judicial approval. The American people deserve to know who among us has been spied on without a warrant."

What more is needed?

A full investigation into the program as a whole, not just the DOJ's involvement, will be necessary," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.

And this from "Former Reagan administration national security official Robert F. Turner, now associate director at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia":

"It's good that the executive branch, on its own, is making sure that someone's not abusing this power," Turner said. "But when Congress usurps power vested in the president by the people through the Constitution, then it becomes the lawbreaker."

And back to where we started with the ACLU:

Countering, Caroline Fredrickson, the director of the ACLU's office in Washington, urged Fine "to seek the hidden truth about this program. ... No one, not even the president, is above the law."

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