Reply #35: Since when is ANY version of FISA acceptable? [View All]

[RichardRay]

Ten or fifteen years ago the very existence of the FISA court was taken as the end all and be all evidence of the perfidy of the US government - it was damned as a Star Chamber of the worst kind. Now all of a sudden FISA is a sacred law of the land that has to be protected. What happened?

Anybody who believes privacy actually exists anymore is fooling themselves badly. Unless you are making a moment to moment effort to retain it, and have been doing so assiduously for the last 30 years you have no privacy and you can't get it back. And that's why FISA suddenly looks so much like a Good Thing when it used to be clearly a Bad Thing: the modicum of process it provides is way better than what we will have 10 years from now, so we try to protect it.

I'm lucky - I'll be dead before this all comes to a head - but some of you younger folks may want to figure out the best deal you can get.