Tomorrow's New York Times reveals the truth, the FISA Telecoms Amnesty Bill is not a compromise:
"I think the White House got a better deal than even they had hoped to get," said Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri, who led the negotiations.
The White House immediately endorsed the proposal, which is likely to be voted on in the House on Friday and in the Senate next week.
As detailed in the excellent diaries by Glen Greenwald (latest entry first) here, here and here.
A "Strange Bedfellows" coalition of libertarian leaning people and left of center bloggers are collecting money to put up ads challenging the lead enablers of this farce, especially Steny Hoyer and some of the Blue Dogs. See the Act Blue page.