Short of air, the thinning document, once a cornerstone of the nation and an example to the world, was heard tapping on the rubble with a spoon. Unconfirmed reports indicate the bill was tapping out the Morse code letters for "Congress sucks." The incident occurred Saturday evening just as the House followed the Senate in supporting the president's proposals to strip NSA domestic surveillance procedures of the longstanding process of warrant requests and judicial oversight that have stood between government spies and your personal communications for nearly 30 years. More on Democrats caving to Bush from HuffPo, AP and NYT. More about how FISA actually is supposed to work here.

In a hearing on the friendly-fire death of Pat Tillman, Former War Minister Donald Rumsfeld told House Members he couldn't recall anything about anything no less than 82 times, according to the Post. Everything you need to know is summed up here: Rumsfeld, tanned and fit, slouched in his chair as he endured the proceedings. He glanced several times at a clock on the wall and was overheard saying he had a lunch at the Mayflower. He made no overt effort to speak with the Tillman family members who sat a few rows behind him; as the room cleared at the end, Rumsfeld came within three feet of the late soldier's father but said only "Can we slip by?"

The president wants to gut the rules that govern oversight of NSA spying. It'd make huge swaths of his illegal spying activity legal and lay your calls and emails bare to the men in black without any judges anywhere looking at what the government was doing. Please help this not happen. Call Congress and tell them to get some backbone. Learn more here.