As Josh Marshall notes, it's difficult to interpret this any other way.
And Atrios weighs in on the rather bizarre reality that conservatives are sitting back and accepting one of the largest big-government, authoritarian power-grabs in American history.
It appears Specter is moving ahead with his bullshit bill to provide amnesty for the executive branch's criminal activities, legalize those criminal activities, and then have the FISA court rule on the much more narrow question of whether warrantless wiretapping violates the 4th amendment.
It occurs to me that we're at a fascinating moment in political history. Just about all the leading lights of the conservatarian movement in this country are on the record as being in support of the executive branch's right to spy on American citizens, tapping their phone calls, without any judicial oversight. So much for freedom and small nonintrusive government and all that crap.
