Letters to the Editor

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? Glenn Greenwald [2008-01-28]

• 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

  -- sysprog
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