Good posts on FISA scandal:

Good posts on FISA scandal:

Crooked Timber listing the various rhetorical devices used to cover up this scandal.

Yglesias describes how this is the sort of thing you get when all you ever need in an argument is “my motivations are pure”.

Shrug. All I can feel is once again ire at people who trust in the limits set by legalisms. If the people of the country feel torture and indiscriminate wire-tapping is wrong, we should at least try to elect people who actually feel that it is wrong too, not hope they are kept in check by dead pieces of paper.