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Whether or not the Bush administration violated people's Constitutional rights (and they almost certainly did), what they did was flat-out illegal. The law said that you needed warrants for wiretapping, or more specifically, FISA warrants for the kind of wiretapping Bush wanted to do. He simply ignored that part of the law and went ahead with the wiretap anyway. That's illegal.
By the way, there's no way we can possibly know the specific victims of the warrantless wiretapping because Bush illegally bypassed the lawfully mandated judicial review process and engaged in his actions in total secrecy. So the notion that there are "no victims" is really more an article of faith than a likely extrapolation of facts. The fact is, those wiretaps spied on someone, and they were illegally deployed, so someone out there is a victim. Case closed.
And by the way, whether or not you agree that the secret wiretapping is a good or bad thing (it's obviously a fucking horrible thing, but that's another argument), it's an illegal thing.
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