What Does Algore Know?

Is it me or is Algore appear to be throwing his hat into the ring again?

Certainly sounds like it from his speech yesterday. Still has that inflammatory partisan stench to his use of words. But I suppose that is to be expected. My question is what does he know that we don't?

"We still have much to learn about the NSA's domestic surveillance. What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently," Gore said.

I read his speech transcript over at Salon and taking this bit out isn't taking anything out of context. If there is "much to learn" how can you have a compelling conclusion that the President violated the law? I could have sworn that very little information was actually known on the topic. Especially as to whether there were/are cases that justified not getting warrants. Well, it is Algore after all, the inventor of the internet, he's got to have more intelligence and knowledge than the rest of us.

From the Salon transcript:

When President Bush failed to convince Congress to give him all the power he wanted when they passed the AUMF, he secretly assumed that power anyway, as if congressional authorization was a useless bother. But as Justice Frankfurter once wrote: "To find authority so explicitly withheld is not merely to disregard in a particular instance the clear will of Congress. It is to disrespect the whole legislative process and the constitutional division of authority between President and Congress."

I guess this is an interesting use of quotes. Is Algore trying to convince us that the Spying was explicitly with held from presidential use by the AUMF?
Explicit.

1 a : fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent

Hmm. I don't see that in the AUMF they had explicitly removed the president's Article 2 constitutional powers. But maybe that's not what Algore meant.

Well, it's just another fine political speech. The usual scream of fire in the crowded theater. I personally would really prefer to have the senate actually do it's investigation and see what the facts are before going off half cocked. But then politicians don't get anywhere by being reasonable.

There's also an article on ReasonOnline interviewing Russell Tice on the topic.