I protest.

Another view.

Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy has a very different take on the FISA amendment that I disparaged in my last post. He seems to think that it is on balance a good thing. I have to admit that I don't know enough about the subject to make a fair assessment. (Although I do know that I dislike the way Hatch manipulated the process, even though I know that it's politics as usual in the Senate.)

Kerr ends by criticizing the term "sweeping" when characterizing the powers granted by the so-called "USA PATRIOT" Act. I don't know, maybe "sweeping" is a slight overstatement, but I don't really think so. I really don't think that Moussaoui, Padilla or Hawash would think it an overstatement, either; they all have personally experienced the consequences of the powers the Act granted to the Justice Department.