Crisis averted?

By Dave Winer on 1/20/07; 7:05:41 AM.

It's nice to see the Bush Administration starting to obey the law in foreign surveillance. Recall, when they said they weren't going to get the warrants required by FISA, it caused an outraged and scared response among advocates of the Constitution, myself included.  

Well, the good news is that they say they're going to start obeying the law. The Attorney General says that times have changed, they're not as worried now as they were after 9-11, but we suspect the real reason is that there's now a Democratic Congress, that might ask some questions that the old Republican one didn't, ones the Bush guys don't want to have raised, or if they are raised, now they have an answer: "That was a time of emergency." 

But why should a new Congress make a difference? After all, if they were willing to break one law, why not break them all? Which raised the really ugly question, which as far as I'm concerned, is still out there -- will Bush actually leave office at the end of 2008? Now it seems more likely he will. If so, what a relief it will be when that happens. Hope we make it.