Thank goodness we have principled Republicans like Arlen Spector to stand up to this administration:

Specter's bill will have three troubling consequences if it becomes
law. First, it makes lawbreaking legal. When the New York Times
revealed last December that the Bush administration has been
eavesdropping without judicial approval for the past four years, it
meant that the president has been systematically violating a law that
makes such eavesdropping a crime punishable by up to five years in
prison. If laws are to have any meaning, then elected officials cannot
simply violate them with impunity. Specter's bill not only virtually
guarantees there would be no consequences for this deliberate, ongoing
criminality, but rewards and endorses the president's lawbreaking by
changing the law to conform to the president's conduct.

[via C&L]