As more and more becomes known in the Bunnypants Spying Morass or "What the NSA can do for an ignorant Dictator-wannabe", this little gem popped up in the article in the post on how the heads of the FISA court view the little excercise in Constitution-shredding being engaged in at 1600 PA AVE.

Lamberth and Kollar-Kotelly derived significant comfort from the trust they had in Baker, the government's liaison to the FISA court. He was a stickler-for-rules career lawyer steeped in foreign intelligence law, and had served as deputy director of the office before becoming the chief in 2001.

Baker also had privately expressed hesitation to his bosses about whether the domestic spying program conflicted with the FISA law, a government official said. Justice higher-ups viewed him as suspect, but they also recognized that he had the judges' confidence and kept him in the pivotal position of obtaining warrants to spy on possible terrorists. my em

When John D'Iulio nicknamed these fucking losers the Mayberry Machiavellis he was so right. They don't give a rats ass about anything by politics. If this ever gets enough oversight by a congress with some cojones to look into what's been going on, my money is on a Hooveresque intelligence collection program on the 1600 Crew's domestic "enemies", meaning anyone who does not buy into the partyline, lock stock and party-card.

Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer, Ein Goobernauts.