Before they charged out of Washington, D.C., for their August recess, the House and Senate passed a temporary (six-month) fix to the ridiculousness which has become FISA. Recently a federal FISA judge ruled that communications between two foreign, non-U.S. persons, that merely pass through a piece of electronic equipment in the United States require a warrant.

Two things.

First, that's just silly.

Second, isn't it just a little insane that it's easier for the U.S. government to spy on communications between two suspsected terrorists that never travel through the U.S. than it is for those that do? Shouldn't there be some advantage to having all these fiberoptic cables and routers being housed in the U.S.?

Andrew McCarthy over at the National Review has an excellent article arguing for the end of FISA. Unfortunately, it may take another attack with a 9/11-size death toll before enough members of congress decide that there's more to fear from terrorists than there is from the guy in the White House.