So Bush's reason to sidestep the law banning eavesdroppping on US citizens was because Bin Laden might find out!!! OH NOES NOT BIN LADEN.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
So if you believed Bush, you believed that Osama had NO IDEA that the US was trying to trace his satellite phone, even though he was the #1 most wanted in the world. Well even so, it complete hogwash. By the time the mention in the press that Osama was being tracked by satellite phone, he had already turned it off, and the information was already public.
The press gave nothing away. There's absolutely no reason for Bush to sidestep the FISC courts.