Actually, we already *have* a secret court that issues warrants for this sort of thing - the refusal by the administration to run these wiretaps past them is, I suspect one of the reasons for the ruling.

I too am disturbed by the spin on this - I hadn't realized that our media was quite this much in lockstep with the prez. NPR was doing a pretty good job of keeping it just a factual reporting, from what I heard when listening, and I'll confess to not paying attention to major network news sources anymore.