http://www.crypto.com/papers/paa-ieee.pdf

The short version: data security experts agree the Protect America Act leaves us more vulnerable to having our information stolen or used against us should the proposed data pools be successfully hacked.

Identity theft on a truly national scale. The lack of safeguards, either statutory or procedural, virutally ensure this happens at some point down the road.

Oh brother, Democrats can't handle a talk show but they are ready to deal with actual bad guys?

Shooter242 can't handle Fox News isn't news but wants to lecture everyone about actual issues? Eck.

100. You Will Help Undo The Damage Done To Our Country Over The Last Several Decades.

I suppose this includes such things as the advances of civil rights and voters rights, right? The only thing missing is a mandate to hunt down the Bavarian Illuminati and recover the Ark of the Covenant.

You crashed and burned, son.

Voting rights continued...

Let's keep in mind anyone coming out of prison is disenfranchised. My original comment was directed more at the wiping out of such things as poll tests and the like.

That there are still barriers (social as well as legal) erected against voters of any ethnicity or creed is only to be expected. Ethnic racism seems one of the defining characteristics of human civilization.

Okay, so now that McConnell has had his people walk off the floor to "study" the stimulus package...now what?

Anyone care to weigh in on what Reid might or might not due come Wednesday or Thursday? I mean, at this point he and his caucus has little reason or incentive to play 'nice' anymore with McConnell and company.

And make no mistake, its Bush's legacy. It was at his initiative that all this has come to pass; there are those who helped it along, true, but for Bush's direction it would not have begun. Now we dare not trust our very institutions or each other, lest we be branded wrongly for imaginary crimes.

Yes, Its a shameful and bitter chapter in our nation's history that like it or not we're going to have to live with. Trust is always the first casualty of any conflict, martial or ideological, and is always the last wound to heal. But it does heal.

This is not the be all and end all of our history however, nor is it the 'death bell' of the Republic. Its one moment in time, and time will not stand still regardless of how many reactionary conservatives wail and gnash their teeth and call out for Divine Intervention.

This is Bush's legacy and his alone.

Now it time for the rest of us to make our own, hopefully a better one than this messianic nihlist.

I submit that Glenn Greenwald is one of the "30 per centers" on telcom immunity.

Why so? Based upon your own predilications for illegal activity, or simply because you need to take a contrary position?

Please, please, please, let a Democrat like Obama or Hillary campaign for the Presidency on the notion that they support lawsuits against the telcoms who cooperated with the Executive branch in the war on terror.

Hmmm. Support due process and the rule of law, or support blatantly illegal activity in the name of a nonexistent "war"?

Anyone with an ounce of integrity would find that an easy one.

Look, you're not going to change my mind on the issue and I don't maintain any illusion of changing yours. All that I am saying is that I can hardly wait to start campaigning on Obama's pro-lawsuit vote.

What you're saying is you take a position and decline to defend it. The Senator from my state of birth isn't here shooting his mouth off.

You are.

So pony up, put up, and defend your supposed position on the issue.

Or don't, as the case may be. But don't expect anything but the back of my hand (metaphorically, of course). You and yours have earned nothing else.

I think the real 'fault line' here is between the mainstream of security-minded Americans and...The far left, whose default position is to blame American first, and who regard the war on terror as a purely domestic law enforcement issue.

I see. So its the "terrorist's" fault that the Bush Administration and Congress have just decided to eject the rule of law. The President and the Congress of the United States are just doing as they've directed.

My my, how powerful these "terrorists" are. How very threatening they are as opposed to, say, a nuclear-armed North Korea.

See how "mainstream" you position is when you find yourself under surveillance for no discernable reason, or when your door is kicked in by soldiers and you stand accused of crimes not your own.

I'd pity you, but I don't believe in wasted emotion.