Letters to the Editor
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New FISA Bill
1. The initial contents of the proposed bill, and its sponsors' intentions, are all entirely immaterial. Surely we know by now that any bill introduced by Democrats in this Congress is nothing but a piece of paper with a number at the top.
2. The various reporting requirements are all obviously worthless. No penalties for refusing to obey the law; no will in Congress to enforce them even if they existed; no reason to "comply" by doing anything more than filing nonsense, ranging from vague and conclusory to visibly fraudulent and contemptuous; and no hope that Congress wouldn't take whatever it's handed, no matter how defective.
3. Any bill that actually does anything will never pass the Senate, and if it is, it will be successfully vetoed. Nothing that Bush doesn't want will become law, and he won't obey it anyway. This horse left the barn last August and it ain't never coming back.