The Dynamics of Wirearchy at their Finest

The whole Joe-Klein-reporting-on-the-pending-FISA-bill fiasco is getting hilarious, troubling or absurd (your pick).

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Collectively, Klein's postings paint a deceiving caricature of people who are concerned about letting the government turn the nation's telecommunication systems into giant microphones -- something that was explicitly rejected in the wiretapping compromises that followed the excesses of Nixon, the CIA and J. Edgar Hoover.

Perhaps Time's correction writer is out with an extended tryptophan Thanksgiving coma, but when she gets back, she's got some serious work to do.

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It has all the elements that the ongoing hyperlink-driven power shift enable ... status and position taken for granted, stubborn and resistant senior editors, and informed and knowledgeable commenters who care about the issues about which the journalist Joe Klein states "I have neither the time nor legal background to figure out who's right" (his words .. AMAZING !).