What Andrew said. Why Mikulski is voting to undercut both the rights of bona fide claimants against the telecommunication companies who have betrayed their customers' privacy AND her party's position on the matter is beyond me. There already is immunity for judicially warranted searches; if the executive branch violated the civil rights of customers by leaning without warrants on telecom companies, the federal budget should per Arlen Specter's proposal indemnify, not immunize, those companies.

I say give her Al Wynn's phone number and hope that when she feels the heat, she sees the light.