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Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:00 AM

FISA 101

Are establishment journalists truly incapable of understanding the most basic facts about eavesdropping, or are they unwilling?
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, February 14, 2008 06:44 PM

    Wondering what 19 Senate Democrats For FISA means

    It seems possible that Reid knew all along that 19 Democrats would vote for immunity, making a real fillibuster impossible. This would explain the double talk, introducing the bill with immunity and all the weird dog and pony show that followed. He may have felt that an awkward and unconvincing token resistance was better than introducing the bare bill and having Democrats themselve add immunity in a highly visible and wholesale defection of the Bush-camp Democrats.

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