When moles get whacked + A 3rd CIA site

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A story that has seen mostly a collective shrug is that of Brian Ross' and John Esposito's report that the FBI was using National Security Letters (authorized by the Patriot Act) to get the reporters' telephone records. In their blog entry, Ross and Esposito write about how and what the FBI was doing.

In a separate interview on DemocracyNow!, Ross says they're writing a piece on Friday exposing a 3rd Eastern European country which is hosting a CIA "black site." They were the first reporters (Human Rights Watch named them as possible sites) to confirm Poland and Romania as countries assisting the CIA in holding terrorist suspects and torturing them.

Separately, morons like Max Boot argue in an LA Times Op-Ed that FISA should be replaced with "legislation that gives the president permission to order any surveillance deemed necessary." Leaks, according to the venerable Boot, a Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will apparently keep the government honest. Ha, ha!