FISA and Telecom Immunity

So we were recently assigned to read two articles representing opposite sides of the FISA and telecom immunity debate, one by the Wall Street Journal and the other by blogger and author Glenn Greenwald.

How do I feel about it? I don't know. Greenwald's article, written in reply to the Wall Street Journal editorial, claimed that the editorial distorted a lot of the facts. I can only imagine that the writer of the Wall Street Journal editorial would claim the same of Greenwald. This leaves me in a lurch, unable to separate fact from fiction (although, on Greenwald's part, he cites a lot of information directly from the law).

Assuming that what Greenwald is true however, then I am very worried - not just about the policies in and of themselves, but more importantly, in the way they are going about trying to pass this bill - repeating sound bites and lying to the American people. I am not against all wiretapping, nor does most Americans, however it cannot be done with some justification of suspicion which would be represented by a court-issued search warranty. If the bill is really being pushed to include tha a court-issued search warranty is unneeded in order to wiretap then we will be violating the Constitution, the laws, the principles, and the values that we are fighting to defend in the first place.
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