Bush explicitly admits breaking the law

Pay very close attention to what President Bush says in response to CBS's Bob Schieffer:

SCHIEFFER: Let me ask you this, Mr. President because I just have never quite understood this, and maybe you could clear this up. As I understand the law, you had the right to wiretap or eavesdrop on anyone and have three days to tell the court about it. How does that slow you down?

PRESIDENT BUSH: I asked the same question to the people designing the program. I said, how come we can't use the procedures which you just described, and they said it won't work. It doesn't fit in with what Mike Hayden described as "hot pursuit." I have looked at this program from all angles, and my dilemma and my problem is I can't explain to you how it works in order to justify your question without telling the enemy what we are doing.

Shorter Bush: I asked my people why we couldn't obey the law and, when they said we couldn't, we went ahead and broke the law anyway. I'm sorry, but this is, without a doubt, an admission of guilt. And it wouldn't be his first.