“Anyone is a potential target.”
- Julian Sanchez

The award for the most bald-faced lie on the House floor Friday, however, goes to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who insisted that the bill “does not allow warrantless surveillance of Americans.” She is wrong. It does.

… The bill … allows the government to conduct “vacuum cleaner” surveillance — sweeping up international traffic willy-nilly — then filter it for anything that looks interesting. Indeed, many believe that licensing such surveillance is precisely the point of this legislation. If so, “warrantless surveillance of Americans” could well become routine, whether or not they are the formal “targets” of eavesdropping.

- Julian Sanchez @ American Prospect (June 25, 2008): Link.

Via Boing Boing: Link.

See also Obama’s support for the FISA “compromise”.

Wikipedia: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act