Sounds like that pussy Specter is bowing down to the big old bully called Dick Cheney now:

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed legislation that would give President Bush the option of seeking a warrant from a special court for an electronic surveillance program such as the one being conducted by the National Security Agency.

Sen. Arlen Specter’s approach modifies his earlier position that the NSA eavesdropping program, which targets international telephone calls and e-mails in which one party is suspected of links to terrorists, must be subject to supervision by the secret court set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

The new proposal specifies that it cannot “be construed to limit the constitutional authority of the President to gather foreign intelligence information or monitor the activities and communications of any person reasonably believed to be associated with a foreign enemy of the United States.”

Also notice how the WaPo is downplaying the NSA surveillance in this article. They are saying that is intercepts calls that are “international”. Of course we have all been told this is not the case and it does target in on domestic calls also. Nice bow down there WaPo. Apparently the pussies there also got scared of big bad Dick.

Glenn Greenwald has an excellent assessment of this latest act of pandering by Specter.