Arlen the spineless wonder strikes again

Specter always talking like he has a spine and then performing like an eclair.

Specter has mollified conservative opposition to his bill by agreeing to drop the requirement that the Bush administration seek a legal judgment on the program from a special court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978.

Instead, Specter agreed to allow the administration to retain an important legal defense by allowing the court, which holds its hearings in secret, to review the program only by hearing a challenge from a plaintiff with legal standing, said a person familiar with the text of language agreed to by Specter and committee conservatives.

Conservative Republicans who pushed for the change say that it will help quell concerns about the measure’s constitutionality and allow the White House to retain a basic legal defense.

An expert in constitutional law and national security, however, said that the change would allow the administration to throw up huge obstacles to anyone seeking to challenge the program’s legality.

So how the fuck is a person monitored secretly supposed to have any goddamned idea they can protest being monitored? This effectively creates a blank check for monitoring and rubber stamps an unconstitutional action.

Fuck you Arlen. If you had any goddamned principals it would be easy enough for you to fashion a majority mandating what you said you wanted. You'd just have to vote with the Democrats on the Judiciary Committe.

Pussbag.