Complicity

Glenn Greenwald really seems to hit the nail on the head as far as why so many Democrats caved in on granting retroactive immunity for the telecommunications companies in the FISA amendments: so many of the top Democrats knew what was going on. It also illuminates the challenge facing Obama, who above all wants to keep the party together, although I still think he could have finessed those difficulties in various ways without reversing course on his position during the primaries – and without the need to take the damaging hit to his image that he absorbed.