Athenae at First Draft:

Atrios says the president is a criminal. True, but reductive.

The president is a vigilante.

It's not just that he broke the law. It's that he's now saying, proudly, I broke the law, and it's okay because my friends (the heads of Senate committees who were briefed) said so, and it's okay because the people I broke the law to spy on were bad people.

They were, after all, Muslims in America.

That's okay, then.

Get angry or bleat. Your choice, really.