These Fucked Up Times, Part 23,674

What the Senate is about to do tomorrow is very simple: it will (a) vest vast new powers in the President to spy on the calls and emails of American citizens, inside the U.S., with no warrants, and (b) grant amnesty to telecoms that broke multiple federal laws. In sum, it will legalize the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" that the President ordered for years in violation of the law -- a program aimed at eavesdropping on U.S. citizens, inside the U.S. The fact that proponents of the bill, such as the WSJ, have to lie about what the bill does -- and that is what they are plainly doing in claiming the "debate" is about foreign-to-foreign calls -- is rather compelling proof of how pernicious it is.