Wiretap tango...

NPR's All Thing's Considered recently aired a story on lawyers trying to get a hold of NSA evidence against their clients. It's really scary. Orwellian scary.

The long and the short of it is that the NSA/Fed. Gov't won't release any records that may have come from the warrant-less wiretaps. These records won't even be released to defense lawyers with the proper security clearance.

Take a listen, it's pretty good. So much for allowing defendants the right to a fair trial....

Now we're just being silly...

Originally posted 12-10-2006 and transferred here.

I fear for the children of Kansas- I really do.
This article by Slate's Dahlia Lithwick is the latest in a series she's done about the Kansas Atty. General's neverending quest to punish sexual abuse. Of course, it's completey beyond him to define it.

(Sigh) What is the world coming too?

What "is" is.