Get FISA Right on The Seminal!

[Jon Pincus]

http://www.theseminal.com/2009/02/05/get-fisa-rights-dailyish-updates/

if you're on digg, it's at
http://digg.com/politics/Get_FISA_Right_s_New_Blog_The_Seminal with a
very entertaining -- if not remarkably accurate -- summary. [Rich
Jensen, who dugg it, is a long-time GFR member.]

other than that, remember the conference call tomorrow. talk to you
then -- otherwise, have a good weekend!

jon

PS: and if you haven't introduced yourself in the change.org thread,
please do! http://www.change.org/ideas/28/view_blog/get_fisa_right

[Craig Nazor]

All,

Some bad news:

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/38695prs20090209.html

Craig Nazor
c.n...@earthlink.net

[Laura Schneider]

Bad news, indeed. This indicates that Obama's failure to vote against the
FISA amendment was perhaps not an isolated incident....

[Jon Pincus]

Bad news indeed.  Glenn Greenwald's had several posts on this.

Marc Ambinder presents the Obama administration's perspective at http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/02/considered_in_light_of_the.php

There's a good discussion about Ambinder's and Greenwald's posts on Twitter at http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=1199681632&q=%40jayrosen_nyu ... I'm @jdp23 btw if anybody wants to add me.

jon

--
liminal states, my blog
Tales from the Net, a work in progress

[P Bruckart]

I followed the link Craig Nazor posted and was poking around the ACLU site,
when I ran into this cool video about Real ID. I thought it might be helpful
in brainstorming future TV ads (I really like the approach they used.)

-Patrick B.

[Jon Pincus]

A followup from  the Columbia Journalism review at http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/pressing_on_state_secrets.php

and more from Ambinder at http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/02/on_state_secrets_why_didnt_the_admin_seek_a_continuance.php

definitely worth reading!

jon

[P Bruckart]

I forgot the link to the video that I thought might be worth looking at in
reference to brainstorming future TV ads. Here it is:
http://tinyurl.com/4jshs

-Patrick

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[Craig Nazor]

Patrick,

All I can say is...

WOW!

That is really frightening! And quite effective.

Craig