"After The New York Times reported, and CNN confirmed, a claim that Bush gave the National Security Agency license to eavesdrop on Americans communicating with people overseas, the president said that his actions were permissible, but that leaking the revelation to the media was illegal." other things likely to become illegal and a threat to national security, democracy, freedom of speech, abortion, not being a religious fanatic, evolution, the phrase "happy holidays", non-white anglosaxon protestants, and people who are mean to poor little georgy bush.