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Chris Dodd knows how to play Chicken

…the equities. Too bad he isn’t the VP nominee. But someone who opposed the bastardisation of FISA would have energized the base, and we can’t have that in Democratic politics….

Trying to Short Joe Biden

…Public Good. *If that does happen, after yesterday’s speech, I’m voting for McCain, since it will then be truly impossible to take anything Obama says seriously. *Must be her FISA

Human capital is where it’s at!

…whole can be educated to the hilt, but if we can’t trust that our efforts will be put to constructive use, we have problems. Think habeas corpus, FISA, election fraud,…

Do you know what SPP is?

…going on. Let us see, the list is reasonable. Then it must mean the huge changes occurring here become continental in scope. Posse Comitatus FISA Procurement procedures DOD Personnel procedures…

SCOTUS Rules Again . . .

…Clapper v. Amnesty International, the court denied a constitutional challenge to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which vastly expanded the National Security Agency’s surveillance powers. This law authorizes the…