"excellent and very thorough statutory analysis"?
Yes, Greenwald's at it again, showing us the sloppiness of thought that goes into his views of anything done by Republicans:
Following up on yesterday's post regarding Arlen Specter's complete (and hardly unexpected) cave-in to the administration on the NSA scandal, it is now clear that the bill does not have an express amnesty provision in it (see Update II). But every other possible bad thing can and should be said about this bill. Marty Lederman has an excellent and very thorough statutory analysis of the whole travesty, explaining that Specter "introduces a bill, with Administration blessing, that gives the Administration everything it ever wanted, and much, much more."(emphasis mine)
But if you follow the link to this "thorough statutory analysis", you see that it's anything but, as Mr. Lederman freely admits:
The bill is difficult to follow, almost unreadable. I must confess that I've only given it a ten-minute once-over, which is probably more than it deserves.
Greenwald's post only makes sense if you replace the breathless hyperbole about "spying on Americans" and replace it with the truth - "spying on foreign powers and agents of foreign powers". Context reveals all.
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(Creepy ad hominem removed. Sorry, cupcake, we don't allow that kind of thing here. -LB)