FISA Redux

Okay, so here's what happened today. The Senate, with the help of a slew of Democrats, rejected every amendment to the terrible Protect America Act, including the Dodd/Feingold measure to strip telecom immunity from the bill.
Mcjoan at Daily Kos reports that Sen. Chris Dodd has concluded a filibuster at this time is pointless, and is putting his faith in the conference committee with the House, which passed a much better bill without immunity.
If what comes out of conference committee is still unacceptable, Dodd has promised to filibuster when it hits the Senate floor.
But remember, Sen. Russ Feingold said a week or so ago, that he expects a bad bill to succeed and end up in court.
But in the meantime, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed to extend the PAA an additional 15 days, maybe winning time on this crucial Constitutional issue.

Update 2:46 pm

Glenn Greenwald and Firedoglake have a new FISA petition to the House members here:

Greenwald has been consistently eloquent about this travesty.
In today's piece, the Money Quote:

...in 1973, The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for its work in uncovering the Watergate abuses, and that led to what would have been the imminent bipartisan impeachment of the President until he was forced to resign in disgrace. By stark and depressing contrast, in 2006, Jim Risen, Eric Lichtblau and the NYT won Pulitzer Prizes for their work in uncovering illegal spying on Americans at the highest levels of the Government, and that led to bipartisan legislation to legalize the illegal spying programs and provide full-scale retroactive amnesty for the lawbreakers. That's the difference between a country operating under the rule of law and one that is governed by lawlessness and lawbreaking license for the politically powerful and well-connected.