Anyway, it looks Reid's poll is another attempt to put the pressure on the White House. I don't think he wants this hot potato. 
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Now perhaps Crazy Pete Hoekstra knows of something more, or perhaps he would advocate that everyone with known contacts with one extremist should have their IP address permanently tracked (in which case I assume he's willing to undergo such scrutiny, given his ties to Manucher Ghorbanifar). But otherwise the data that didn't get shared appears to be from the brick and mortar world, not the telecom world. 
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Eric Holder is shifting his state secrets cover up strategy, along with his shiny new policy. 
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What ever happened to terrorist suspect Najibullah Zazi's three "associates" who bought certain hair care products this summer? Has the FBI started nosing around in their life? And have they been determined to be innocent? 
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"When history calls . . ." we'd better hope Olympia Snowe is not the only one listening. Snowe was primarily responsible for weaking the stimulus, and now she's in a position -- because that's where the White House wanted her -- to do similar damage to health care reform. 
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Jeffrey S. White, judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, has entered a new order denying the government's request for a stay pending appeal in the telecommunications companies' documents FOIA case brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its efforts to investigate the government's warrantless wiretapping. And Judge White did it before the government ever really asked for a stay! 
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The government motion for an emergency stay reveals how Congress and the executive branch and the contractors they employ to spy on the American people have become on indistinguishable blob. 
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I wanted to turn to the two IG Reports Glenn Fine did on the PATRIOT Act's Section 215, the section that allows investigators to get business records and other tangible items. (2007 report covering 2002 to 2005; 2008 report covering 2006) Although we were required to review calendar years 2002 through 2004 in this first review, we elected to include data from calendar year 2005.  
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