A Win & A Loss In Our War On Terror

A day after Bill Frist signaled that he will go nowhere if he runs for President by disclosing that the NSA Eavesdropping program is dead in the water:

Republicans who limped back to Washington for a lame duck congressional session last week found a host of marching orders from President Bush, but perhaps none more urgent than this: Before Democrats take control of Congress in January, they must pass legislation authorizing the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping program.

His plea for a legislative stamp of approval on the controversial spy effort is an “important priority in the war on terror,” Bush said. The response: deafening silence. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist quickly dispatched aides to put out the word on Bush’s request: Not gonna happen.

We get word that a federal judge has slapped down another fruitless lawsuit by the moonbats:

The National Security Agency is not required to release details about its secret wiretapping program, a federal judge said Monday.

The People for the American Way Foundation, a liberal advocacy group, sued to obtain records under the Freedom of Information Act. The group sought to find out how many wiretaps were approved and who reviewed the program.

President Bush has acknowledged the existence of the program, which he calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program. The National Security Agency monitors phone calls and e-mails between people in the U.S. and people in other countries when a link to terrorism is suspected.

Civil liberties group criticize it as an expansion of presidential power, and a federal judge has said it is unconstitutional. The Justice Department says it is a necessary tool to fight terrorism.

The NSA denied the request for documents, saying the records would jeopardize national security. The advocacy group argued that the law can’t be used to protect the government from disclosing details about illegal programs.

U.S. Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle disagreed, saying that even if the program is ultimately determined to be illegal, it doesn’t change the fact that the materials are classified and are not covered by the Freedom of Information Act.

So on the one hand we finally have a judge who doesn’t support the enemy or the moonbats (one and the same?), but on the other hand we have our own party leaders so scared of the Democrats that they are willing to let a important tool to fight terrorism sit on the shelf.

What a mess the Republican defeat has wrought huh?

But we sure were taught a lesson.

Sigh…..