There's a lot more coverage of FISA and Dodd's leadership to stop retroactive immunity.
Jason Rosenbaum of The Seminal calls on his readers to take action and call Senators Biden, Clinton, and Obama to ask them to support a filibuster.
Christy Hardin Smith of FireDogLake returns from vacation to find a disappointing FISA situation and she calls out for leadership, "We need leadership. From every Democratic Presidential candidate, from every Democratic member of the House and Senate. From every American who cares about his or her nation as a nation of laws and not at the whim of a unilateral executive power grab."
Clammyc of Daily Kos gives a history of how the Senate and Executive Branch have dealt with domestic surveillance and impact on retroactive immunity (before calling on readers to take action at http://chrisdodd.com/filibuster).
Digby, Fallenmonk, Jeralyn at Talk Left, Lambert at Corrente, and Matt Stoller at Open Left.
Lastly, my colleague Tim Tagaris has a diary on Daily Kos giving a run down of the FISA events and how people can get involved to support Dodd's
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Comments: 3
Like impeach .
Cut off funding for Iraq .
Is getting elected and reelected more important than the issues important to us ????
Why didn't you couple schip with funding for Iraq? This would have made a great impasse and really put the pressure on.