FISA judges to be briefed
The FISA court is arranging a formal briefing where the administration will (in theory) explain its warrantless spying program.

• Will there be any analogue of opposing counsel there? Will someone be asking hard questions of the administration, or will it simply be the administration people giving a presentation to the judges and then the judges having to decide to quit or not? Why is this not a matter for a hearing of the ordinary sort?


• Note that this WP article quietly confirms Ars Technica's analysis of what the illegal spying program actually entailed...

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List of titles
I was just at the donations page for Médecins Sans Frontières, and was amused to see the list of titles you can fill in on the form...
( Which would you like to be?Collapse )

Which list, I suppose, makes good sense for an organization like this. But it's not often that you see "Emperor" used on a web form in complete seriousness.

I would make a poll out of this, but I don't think lj could handle that long a radio list...

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