Rebuilding "The Wall"

FISA Football
By Rich Galen

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- FISA -- is set to expire early next year and the Democrats in Congress are feverishly looking for ways to weaken it to try and score political points among its MoveOn.org wing. The bill adopted last night requires the government to get FISA Court authority to intercept communications from terrorists who might be plotting with a sleeper cell in the US. It also forbids one agency from sharing intel with another agency if it comes across potential terrorist activity "inadvertently." Good ideas, huh?

Read on.