<http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/06/10154/>

Nancy Soderberg was deputy national security advisor and an ambassador
to the United Nations in the Clinton administration. Today, she has an
Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times defending the FISA bill and telecom
amnesty. The entire Op-Ed is just a regurgitation of the same trite,
vague talking points which the political elite are using to justify
this bill, accompanied by the standard invocations of “National
Security” which our Foreign Policy elite condescendingly toss around
to justify whatever policy they’re claiming is necessary to protect
us. But it’s the language that she uses — and the brazenness of the
lying (and that’s what it is) to justify this bill — that’s notable
here.

It’s notable because the political establishment is not only about to
pass a patently corrupt bill, but worse, are spouting — on a very
bipartisan basis — completely deceitful claims to obscure what they’re
really doing.