NY Times journalist questions whether everything that the Bush Administration did on counterterrorism was illegal

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times alleged the Bush administration's entire warrantless surveillance program may have been illegal, after a federal judge's ruling that the Bush administration illegally wiretapped an Saudi-based Islamic charity and two American lawyers. "Plaintiffs must  and have put forward enough evidence to establish a prima facie case that they were subjected to warrantless electronic surveillance," US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker declared Wednesday.

James Risen, who broke the story for the Times in 2005, told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Wednesday night that the ruling raises serious questions about the underpinnings of Bush's entire war on terror.

"You could argue that virtually all the programs that the Bush Administration used, rendition, torture, wiretapping, you know, setting up secret prisons, all were in one form or another, an invasion of congressional power," Risen said.

"If by saying the Bush Administration had no right to avoid congressional mandates and congressional legislation, That raises real questions about whether everything that the Bush Administration did on counterterrorism was illegal," Risen added.