More in FISA Bill

The Bingaman Amendment to the FISA bill made some sense, let's wait to give telecoms immunity until after an Inspector General report about what the program was. The report is mandated by the bill and is due in a year. It might be stripping the immunity but then again knowing what they did might give us a better idea if want to do that. But of course this was unacceptable to the Bush administration.

So Jay Rockefeller (R-WV) speaks on the Senate floor in opposition to the Bingaman amendment. His argument was what if the report is late? As Daily Kos points out, yeah, what if the mandated report is late? In fact, there's reason to believe they won't do the report or even that they can do the report.

This bill (now to be law) is so screwed up.

Here's an article on how former FISA Judge James Robinson quit in protest to the Warrantless Domestic Spying program. Some prominent whistleblowers are against the bill too.