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Only ABC assigned a reporter to cover the day's other big espionage story. Jake Tapper told us about the brinksmanship on Capitol Hill over the National Security Agency's program to wiretap online and telephone communications without a warrant. Tapper reminded us that last summer "the White House rolled Democrats in Congress" when the NSA was allowed to go warrantless. That permission runs out on Saturday. "House Democratic leaders refused to bring up the bill because they know it will pass." It was not the eavesdropping per se that was the sticking point. It was the favor the bill would grant the likes of Sprint, AT&T and Verizon. Those telecoms firms face as many as 40 lawsuits because they handed secrets over to the spooks when they should have required a warrant. President George Bush insists they be granted retroactive immunity. The Senate agrees. But the House of Representatives refused to go along.
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