An EFF press release reports that a new proposed bill from Senator Arlen Specter would be “a rubber stamp for any future spying program dreamed up by the executive.” This is our lap-dog legislative branch in action. Rather than hold the president responsible for ignoring the law, they’ll just bend the law around his action and any future actions he might dream up. But wait, it gets better:
“The bill would, however, require that any lawsuit challenging the legality of any classified surveillance program — including EFF’s class-action suit against AT&T — be transferred, at the government’s request, to the FISA Court of Review, a secret court with no procedures for hearing argument from anyone but the government” [1].
