Iran. Senator James Webb has introduced a bill, S. 759, to prevent President Bush from attacking Iran without Congressional authorization. To support it, go here.

FISA: Marcy Wheeler has your best guide as to what is going on.

I'll add this: GOP propagandists against RESTORE keep referring to an incident from earlier this year in which troops were endangered by a delay resulting from the need for a warrant. What deceptive nonsense! At that time, the courts had ruled that foreign-to-foreign communications routed through American carriers required a court order. Once the problem became known, everyone in both parties demanded a fix, which the Protect America Act provided. (Must I state again that the August bill had other problems? I suppose I must.)

In other words, the rightists are sounding a call to arms based on a "problem" that has already been solved.

Casting. Also from The Next Hurrah:

...a film about a Judy Miller-esque reporter thrown in jail for not divulging her source on a CIA-related story, will star...Kate Beckinsale. Yup, which I look at Kate Beckinsale, I think Judy Miller.

(If resemblance were a factor, who should have played Jim Garrison in JFK? Fred Gwynne...?)

Dennis Hastert is retiring early. Why, I wonder? I'll be very amused if he claims that he wants to spend more time with his family, since he makes his wife stay in separate quarters whenever she comes to DC.