Absolute monarch

Glenn Greenwald picks up on this part of the USA Today article on NSA's massive telephone database:

The NSA's explanation did little to satisfy Qwest's lawyers. "They told (Qwest) they didn't want to do that [go to the FISA Court for permission] because FISA might not agree with them," one person recalled. For similar reasons, this person said, NSA rejected Qwest's suggestion of getting a letter of authorization from the U.S. attorney general's office. A second person confirmed this version of events.

He goes on to comment as follows:

This theme emerges again and again. We continuously hear that the Bush administration has legal authority to do anything the President orders. Claims that he is acting ilegally are just frivolous and the by-product of Bush hatred. And yet, as I detailed here, each and every time the administration has the opportunity to obtain an adjudication of the legality of its conduct from a federal court (which, unbenownst to the administration, is the branch of our government which has the authority and responsibility to interpret and apply the law), it does everything possible to avoid that adjudication.

This continuous evasion of judical review by the administration is much more serious and disturbing than has been discussed and realized. By proclaiming the power to ignore Congressional law and to do whatever it wants in the area of national security, it is seizing the powers of the legislative branch. But by blocking courts from ruling on the multiple claims of illegality which have been made against it, the administartion is essentially seizing the judicial power as well. It becomes the creatoror, the executor, and the interpreter of the law. The powers of all three branches consolidated in The President, the single greatest nightmare of the founders.

Exactly.

What I don't understand is why there isn't more widespread outrage about this.

Is it just so outrageous that people can't believe it's true?

Or, are we really just ready to roll over and allow our president to do anything he pleases?

I know there are some people who truly believe that as long as the President does it, it must be for the good of the country, no matter what he does. But, can it be the majority of Americans who believe this?