The House took out the trash late Friday (too late in the day for major news reporting), overwhelmingly passing the new wiretapping law, giving the White House a major victory in the War on Terror. The bill re-approves FISA and also gives the telecoms (more or less) a pass on their liability for earlier wiretapping.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/washington/21fisacnd.html?hp

 

The bill is expected to pass the senate, also by a wide margin, and will, of course, be signed by the not-so-lame-duck President.

 

Yessiree, those Democrats (who also reauthorized Iraqi war spending last week) sure are changing things in Washington!

*sigh* I thought they were letting FISA expire?

Bigger and better! Oh, wait. Just bigger. What's the point of having laws if the people it applies to are allowed to break them, hmm?