I was in the car today and heard on NPR that Bush caved on the warrantless domestic spying and has agreed to work with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Cour. While they didn't have a lot of details as to why they just caved, they speculated that they didn't think they'd win.
The Washington post has the details. The letter Gonzales sent to Lehey and Specter announcing this is here.
Tony Snow when asked about the political motivations for this decision happening now said it wasn't politically motivated and is the result of 2 years of efforts. Glenn Greenwald has a lot on the questions raised by the White House's actions and how this seems to contradict all the previous warnings we were told by them.
Personally I think this is proof of why oversight is important. I think this change came about merely because of the threat of oversight. Here's hoping the Democratic Congress can do even more to rein in this out-of-control administration. Gonzales has done other things today that prove its needed.
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