I’m researching a complicated piece for the Philadelphia Music Project, so posting may be light for a little while.
But I wanted to link to Patrick Radden Keefe’s important analysis of the disgraceful wiretapping bill that Bush just signed. Huge surprise: the Democrats knuckled under and gave the Decider everything he wants. “The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is now dead, and it’s never coming back,” writes Keefe:
[P]oliticians keep insisting that even when we cannot understand all this patchy techno-legal babble surrounding eavesdropping, the public should nevertheless recognize that it’s really, really important, and that fixes to the existing programs are so urgently needed, that there’s not even time to comprehend what’s being changed.
Keefe comprehends, and it’s not pretty. Read the whole thing.
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