Homeland Security Sales Pitch (washingtonpost.com): "Laura Murphy, who heads the ACLU's legislative office here, remembers the vote well.
'When we found out the bill was being introduced,' she told me, 'we went to [Democratic Rep. John] Conyers and [Republican Rep. F. James] Sensenbrenner and begged them not to push it through in three days, as the attorney general was urging. They agreed, and their committee rewrote the bill to accommodate some of our concerns. The revised bill cleared the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 32 to zero."
"Then in the middle of the night -- it was reprinted at 3:30 a.m. -- the bill was rewritten again to get all the troublesome stuff back in. When the members voted the following day, hardly anyone except a few staffers had actually seen the bill they were voting on."

This is lovely. Just lovely. The administration who continues to convince people they are good leaders and good Americans govern without telling people.