..out of the dark

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/17/AR2007121700872.html

Democratic leaders had hoped to complete an overhaul of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before recessing for the year, since the current law governing the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program is set to expire in early February. But in the face of more than a dozen amendments to the bill and guerrilla tactics from its opponents, Reid surprised his colleagues when he announced there would not be enough time to finish the job.
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The disputed measure would have placed the warrantless surveillance program under secret court supervision, but the most heated controversy surrounded the White House's efforts to legally shield phone companies that had been helping the National Security Agency listen in on telephone and Internet conversations.

Son of a bitch. The fucking gall - this is not some obscure provision about an uncontroversial issue. This is an easily researchable issue, where there are literally droves of people available for substantial and varied comment on every single issue involved - and they fucking put /this/ on their pages? Oh, beware the "LIBERAL PRESS".