About That Ruling By The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals....

It didn't mean much at all, as far as being a huge victory for Bush as was trumpeted by the MSM.

Are the anchors of today just stupid or paid too well?

Glenn Greenwald - Salon:

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, by a 2-1 decision, vacated last August's the Order from District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor which enjoined the Bush administration from eavesdropping without warrants. Judge Taylor had found that the President's NSA warrantless eavesdropping program violates both the Constitution as well as federal law (FISA).

Yesterday's ruling (.pdf) had absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the case -- i.e., whether the NSA program is illegal or not -- but instead rested only on the narrow, technical (though important) issue of whether the particular plaintiffs in this case are entitled to sue over the warrantless eavesdropping program (two of the three judges concluded that they are not).