Glenn Greenwald, in full crow, writes of the re-connection of the President and FISA over the (insanely) controversial NSA surveillance program :For those people (as opposed to the Bush followers who support anything the administration does no matt…

It’s amusing actually. To think that President Bush, a man who has shown absolutely no qualms with pissing the left off if he thinks its in the interest of this country, would just sell out the program due to pressure from the left….quite ludicrous…

Not very reassuring.

President Bush has decided not to renew a program of domestic spying on terrorism suspects, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Wednesday, ending an law-enforcement tactic criticized for infringing on civil liberties.”The president has dete…

Memo from Alberto Gonzales: Kindly disregard any idea that we had a losing hand. On spying on citizens. On Article Two inherent authority. On state secrets. And oh, yeah, we will comply with FISA in “innovative” ways. And forget that m…

Seems the Bush Administration blinked on the legal NSA survelliace program:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department, easing a Bush administration policy, said Wednesday it has decided to give an independent body authority to monitor the g…

The Justice Department, easing a Bush administration policy, said Wednesday it has decided to give a

will it end the countless lawsuits by the ACLU and other groups. I wouldn’t bet on it.

Nope, it better not, for two reasons:
1. The legality of this type of program needs to be clearly decided so there is no doubt in the mind of future presidents.
2. If the program is deemed to be illegal, those responsible for it must be appropriately punished. A crime does not disappear simply because the criminal stopped committing it.

However, for those of us who supported the White House on this contentious point, the speed in which they reached accommodation with FISA will call into question that early support. By my count, we’ve had ten entire weeks since the midterms and they’ve managed to scale a mountain that they claimed was insurmountable for the previous five years.

Exactly. The administration has frequently justified its actions by saying things to the effect of “We can’t do things the old way. Terrorism is too difficult to combat with antiquated procedures.”

The degree to which they’ve been proven wrong on this issue seriously calls into question the other issues as well.

There are a few things that I’d like to point out as far as changes to this site go and my personal blogging ventures. The single biggest change is an upgrade in blogging software. For a while now, Conservative Thinking…