Wise-up intelligence

WISE-UP INTELLIGENCE
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Editorial staff]
[Commentary] When the Bush Administration proposes changing a law that protects Americans from unchecked electronic surveillance, civil libertarian knees begin to jerk. And understandably so. This, after all, is the administration that for five years eavesdropped on the international phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens suspected of ties to foreign terrorists without seeking the approval of the special court that was created to oversee such surveillance. But some of what is being requested makes sense. The problem is that these sensible adjustments are weighed down by two kinds of baggage: the administration's past casualness about privacy, and language in the "modernization" bill that seems to give past and future eavesdropping on Americans too much benefit of the doubt.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-ed-fisa9may09,1,657...
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