While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

In 2008 he was awarded a Doctorate of Law (Hon. "
Turley in his capacity as a constitutional scholar testified in favor of the Clinton impeachment. In 2008 his blog was ranked as the top law professor blog and legal theory blog by the American Bar Association Journal's survey of the top 100 blogs.

Jonathan Turley (born May 6 1961) is an American lawyer legal scholar writer commentator and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism. He is currently a professor of law at The George Washington University Law School.