I don’t know about anyone else, but the Senate vote to grant telecoms immunity today is the most depressing vote I’ve seen since the Military Commissions Act of 2006 stripping habeas corpus, and before that, the Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iraq in 2002. Not that any of them were terribly surprising, and it’s probably a good thing to still have the capacity to feel disgusted, but none of that changes how repulsive such an immoral, unnecessary and unconstitutional act this was.

Wouldn’t it be nice to know who Cheney was spying on?
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There are two videos you really should see if you’ve missed them.

The brief video below is Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) explaining the real life ramifications of the surveillance policies the Bush administration and their allies want:

This comes courtesy of Glenn Greenwald, who has more here, and who often writes on these issues.

The second video is pretty disturbing, of a woman being strip’searched after a call to the police for help:
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