Not a conjecture. A statement. I don't believe in situational ethics. Wiretapping without a search warrant is wrong. The situation doesn't matter. The politics of the president doesn't matter. If we are not a society of law then those that hate America have won by destroying us.
There was a court set up to issue warrants. That court was bypassed. To me that is not a balance of power issue, but a legal issue. The constitution guarantees certain rights. By not going to the court to get the search warrant then the Executive Branch bypassed the Constitution that they have sworn to uphold.
The public is being fed garbage from most news sources. There are doctors who are willing to testify in court that smoking will not cause cancer. Now the public has to decide if these doctors lie, or if the other side lies, or if the truth lies someplace in the middle. But the technical detail is so difficult for a layman to understand that they give up, and just let those in the know handle it.
This is a good suggestion. Most polls are commisioned by someone, and are designed to return the answer that was wanted, rather than to gather information. A good study on what the Executive Branch can and can not do in protecting us from foreign and domestic enemies is important.