Did Bush Ask for Explicit Authority to Spy in US?

Senator Tom Daschle was still the Majority Leader of the Senate when Bush sought overreaching powers for the White House after 9/11. Apparently, Bush's habit of revising history does not sit well with the former senator. Both Eschaton and War and Piece noticed this article in the Washington Post about Tom Daschle's role immediately after 9/11:

The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority "in the United States" in negotiations over the joint resolution passed days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to an opinion article by former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) in today's Washington Post.

Daschle's disclosure challenges a central legal argument offered by the White House in defense of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and permanent residents. It suggests that Congress refused explicitly to grant authority that the Bush administration now asserts is implicit in the resolution. [...]

"Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text," Daschle wrote. "This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request...

The evidence grows that Bush has been exceeding his authority and that he and others in his administration are likely to face legal difficulties. It is long past time for Congress, the media and the courts to hold these people accountable.