So, where's the catch...? Ah, HERE it is...!

i read the headlines on this story in both the wapo and the nyt, and immediately thought to myself,¨"where's the catch...?" well, looks like here it is...

On the eve of his first appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee since control of that chamber changed hands, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales yesterday announced what appears to be a timely tactical retreat in connection with the Bush administration's warrantless domestic spying program. According to a letter issued by Gonzales, "any surveillance that was occurring as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program will now be conducted subject to the approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court," a move that President Bush strongly resisted for more than a year. Yet it remains unclear "whether the administration found a friendly judge who gave a blanket approval to the program or whether it will have to seek individual approval each time it wants to eavesdrop." This distinction is critical, and the administration will not say one way or the other. However, in today's New York Times, Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) charged that the new approach in fact relies "on a blanket, 'programmatic' approval of the president's surveillance program, rather than approval of individual warrants." Administration officials "have convinced a single judge in a secret session, in a nonadversarial session, to issue a court order to cover the president's terrorism surveillance program," Wilson said. Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Mark Agrast writes today, "Before the senators give the administration their blessing, they must be satisfied that this is not a fresh attempt to circumvent the independent case-by-case review which the Constitution requires before the government may lawfully intercept domestic communications.

anybody who offers ANY trust to these bastards deserves everything that comes his way...

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