Lawmakers Introduce Bill Requiring Court Order to Seize Phone Records.

This is a partial step forward but not adequate. Obama's War on Whistleblowers could surely get a court order to pursue the next Ellsberg or Manning.

Obama's proposed law to "shield" journalists would really make journalists (and our right to know what the state is doing) more vulnerable.

To get back our privacy rights, we need to end the practice of making complete dossiers of everything we say, to be looked at later.