NYT: "Two groups plan lawsuits over federal eavesdropping." As a reader writes, you will want to check out the list of plaintiffs -- pro-Bush administration writer Christopher Hitchens, Hoover Institute scholar and presumably ex friend of Sec. of State Condy Rice Larry Diamond, Prospect editor Tara McKelvey, NSA writer James Bamford, etc.

Meantime, check out this NYT piece on the "virtually all" dead ends resulting from the warrantless surveillance program:

In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to check out thousands of tips a month.

But virtually all of them, current and former officials say, led to dead ends or innocent Americans.

More on the "calls to Pizza Hut," from Garance Franke-Ruta.

Posted by Laura at January 16, 2006 10:29 PM