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The danger doesn’t fade.

Living in a 9/10 world.

Shhhhhhh.

Fix it. Permanently. Now.

“Congress needs to act immediately.”

“Scare tactics and political games.”

Supreme Court ruling supports domestic terrorism surveillance.

Tick, tick, tick.

Update 3:20pm Eastern. Ed Morrissey reports on a House GOP walkout.
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Can the Beltway still be living in a September 10 world? I’ve kept you updated on the latest FISA shenanigans by Democrats who would rather let the nation’s surveillance laws lapse to benefit their presidential candidates than agree to a permanent fix. Andy McCarthy rings […]

Stop the stopgaps.

Defeatists defeated.

Unintelligent.

Update 6:00pm Eastern. DJN: “Lawmakers in the Senate defeated an initial attempt Thursday to strip immunity for telecommunications companies out of a bill reauthorizing the federal government’s warrantless wiretapping program. Senators approved a motion to table an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would have removed the immunity provision in the bill. The […]

Your tax dollars at work. Or rather, not at work.

Losers. Update: More pile-on.

Failure.

“It should be zero.”

Up all night.

Glenn and Helen interview Judge Richard Posner on the constitution, national emergencies, terrorism, privacy, surveillance, FISA courts, espionage, and civil libertarians in denial. A snippet:
“I think, you know, we need some fresh thinking. There’s a tendency of civil libertarians to kind of repeat tired formulas. It’s a kind of nostalgia for the old days. It’s […]

Scroll for updates, injunction posted…44-page opinion posted
ABC has it on its Breaking News bar.
Detroit Free-Press has the story:
A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program violates the Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency’s program, […]

Debra Burlingame speaks for me:
We now have the ability to put remote control cameras on the surface of Mars. Why should we allow enemies to annihilate us simply because we lack the clarity or resolve to strike a reasonable balance between a healthy skepticism of government power and the need to take proactive measures to […]