And The Shrub's* legal advisers told him that waterboarding, sleep deprivation, etc weren't torture, and that he could wiretap without warrants.
Both were later found by the actual legal authorities in the US to be verboten, and were shut down.
Sometimes your legal people give very bad advice.
* Shrub = small Bush
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