Not long ago (July 3rd actually), Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court in California ruled that President George W. Bush lacks the authority to disregard FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). This means the Bush administration’s warrantless electronic surveillance program–for which Congress wants to grant retroactive immunity–was illegal. It seems to me that illegal surveillance conducted against the American people is far worse than illegal surveillance conducted against a rival political party.

Update: For which Congress has granted immunity and allowed (encouraged) to continue. Yet the top story on CNN is not about our eroding freedoms; it is instead about DNA evidence clearing JonBenet Ramsey’s family of her slaying.