You Know Things Are Bad…
Posted on July 11th, 2008 at 11:22 am by Steve

…when Dick Cheney is smiling:
Darth Cheney
I won’t even bother going into the details of the disastrous FISA legislation that was passed this week. Cheney’s smirk tells you everything you need to know.

Georgetown Law professor Marty Lederman sums it up thusly:

The new statute permits the NSA to intercept phone calls and e-mails between the U.S. and a foreign location, without making any showing to a court and without judicial oversight, whether or not the communication has anything to do with al Qaeda — indeed, even if there is no evidence that the communication has anything to do with terrorism, or any threat to national security.

If you want all the details, Glenn Greenwald has them, as usual.