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What's at stake today in the Senate's FISA filibuster vote Are there any limits at all on the willingness of Senate Democrats to be bullied and manipulated by the White House?
  • Has "The Politico" outsourced fact-checking to "Human Events"?

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/8117.html

    Bush presses Congress on FISA
    By: Mike Allen
    Jan 26, 2008

    [...] The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which governs surveillance of telephone calls and e-mail traffic of suspected terrorists, expires on Friday. [...]

    - - "The Politico" / Mike Allen

    Addington and Cheney and the OVP/EOP staff would be tickled pink if it were FISA (rather than the PAA) that's about to expire, so I find it hard to believe that Addington & Cheney & Co. (that is, the Bush Administration) would tell "The Politico" that there's a danger of FISA expiring.

    So I doubt that "The Politico" has outsourced their fact-checking to the OVP/EOP.

    And, of course, I refuse to believe that a distinguished publication such as "The Politico" has no fact-checking at all.

    So the question is, what's the nature of their fact-checking?

    My best guess is that they've outsourced it to these distinguished scholars:

    http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24647

    FISA Fight Continues
    by Jed Babbin
    Posted: 01/25/2008

    One week from today, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will expire unless Congress passes a new version that President Bush is willing to sign. If it expires, our intelligence gatherers here and abroad will be rendered blind and deaf [...]

    - - Human Events

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