Dartblog

Do you recall when we spent an entire winter waltzing about whether the National Security Agency could justifiably listen to international phone calls one end of which is in the United States? For a brief spell, it was a hot topic, the Bush administration tapping the phones of terrorists. If I recall, it even spurred a presidential address (or at least a few press conferences). But we’ve not heard much about it lately, because the program has been overwhelmingly upheld in court in seventeen out of the eighteen cases in which it was challenged.

That eighteenth was ruled on by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, whose decision seems quite thoroughly reversable.