FISA Debate Goes Beyond Partisan Rhetoric

By Ed Black
Special to Roll Call
March 11, 2008, 12 a.m.

The current controversy surrounding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has dominated the news, and rightly so. The renewal of FISA and its most controversial provision, retroactive immunity for the telecommunications companies that cooperated with the government on wireless surveillance activities, will impact every American — and some of the most important industries at the center of our economic growth.



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Stier: Detecting a Bad Breast Cancer Bill

July 1, 11:28 a.m.

Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article

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