Well, a judge has ruled against the program, despite some of the obvious precedents and reasons for it. Bush will be taking it to a higher court, and I pretty much expect it to be fought all the way up the line. What gets me is that some of the political vampires in the senate are still acting like they never heard of the program before it was publicised, even though they were being briefed on it the whole time!

Transterrestrial links that from the NYTimes, whether or not the program affected security seems to depend on which aspect of the program is politically advantageous to the democrats at the time.