"Didn't you get that memo?"

Via Digby, it looks like somebody forgot to give National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell the memo about the 2006 mid-term results..."McConnell seeks to boost U.S. spy powers."

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell has circulated a draft bill that would expand the government's powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, liberalizing how that law can be used.

Question: If the administration has been actively (and unapologetically) violating the FISA for years, why the hell would they care about re-writing it? So they have a brand-new law to ignore?