Be Afraid

Reason's Julian Sanchez gives the 411 on the Democrats' recent 9-11-panic-induced capitulation to King George on monitoring our phone calls. Scary stuff, but an entertaining read. He should get some sort of he-good-with-words award for this line:

Suddenly it became urgent that Congress "modernize" what was invariably described as "the 1978 FISA statute," conjuring images of forlorn agents in white polyester leisure suits vainly hunting for al-Qaeda terrorists hidden under Pet Rocks.