Komrade Hiatt weighs in again

There's a reason we call the Washington Post "Pravda on the Potomac." From the neocons who have taken over the Washington Post:

An amendment to the Senate bill by Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden would go too far by requiring that a warrant be obtained when U.S. citizens are the target of surveillance overseas; this would be an unnecessary and potentially disruptive precedent.

Yes, what a strange other-wordly precedent requiring this thing - what do they call it? - a "warrant," yes, that's it, a war-rant in order for the government to search an American citizen. I mean, how daft can the Congress be, trying to codify some crazy idea that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. What ARE these America-haters thinking?

And this:

we do not believe that these companies should be held hostage to costly litigation in what is essentially a complaint about administration activities.

Yes, poor AT&T and Verizon. All they did was try to make billions off of trafficking in your most personal information, and then when they became bad stewards of such information, we simply want to hold them accountable. Yes, what a crazy thought. Much better to let them off the hook so that they learn no lesson and repeat their mistake, their crime, in the future.