Wiretapping Compromise Was Months in the Making

[Klukie]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 — Last June, in a phone conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney, John D. Rockefeller IV, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, set down his conditions for revising the law governing the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping. Only when the committee got access to secret administration documents authorizing surveillance without court warrants, Mr. Rockefeller told the vice president, would it consider such legislation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/us/nationalspecial3/20nsa.html?ref=us

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Another Win For The George Bush Democrats

At least a few Democrats acted like Democrats.