FISA Update

Glenn Greenwald has a great piece on Harry Reid caving to the republicans again. I want to highlight something that is not necessarily about FISA. But is the prevalent view among the chattering classes.

If they were motivated by profit, pursuing these extremely consuming lawsuits would be the last thing they would be doing. But because people like Dick Cheney, Rich Lowry and their political comrades are incapable of believing in political principles separate from their economic self-interest, they apparently assume that everyone is driven by the same barren, corrupt motives that plague them. Not everyone is, and the lawyers behind these telecom lawsuits are driven by anything but a desire to " get into the pockets of the American companies."

They are all guilty of projection.