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solarbirdGlenn Greenwald takes apart a New York Times story buying the entire administration and establishment lie about how the US needs to grant retroactive immunity to the telecoms and how the Bush administration needs new sweeping warrantless spying powers on Americans. It's contemptible and you've read it before, but read it again, because there's commentary about how Democrats don't want to look "weak" before their nominating convention, and should look "not weak" by... capitulating to everything the administration wants, again.
By the way, the "compromise" bill does exactly what was mentioned before - it has the secret FISA court grant retroactive immunity rather than doing it directly. But it doesn't give the court the choice; it has the court do it if the administration says it told the telcos it was legal, even though the entire point of the FISA act has been to prevent that from happening, and have telecom companies resist illegal spying when presented as legal.
Seriously this all makes me want to throw up.
By the way, the "compromise" bill does exactly what was mentioned before - it has the secret FISA court grant retroactive immunity rather than doing it directly. But it doesn't give the court the choice; it has the court do it if the administration says it told the telcos it was legal, even though the entire point of the FISA act has been to prevent that from happening, and have telecom companies resist illegal spying when presented as legal.
Seriously this all makes me want to throw up.
