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The administration announced that the president will stop authorizing the NSA's terrorist-surveillance program. All monitoring of terrorist communications that cross into the United States will now occur under the authorization of special courts organized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Spinning this apparent cave-in as a victory, Justice Department spokesmen contend that they have already gotten court authorization and that it permits everything the NSA program was doing, with equal "speed and agility." This is a startling about-face, to say the least, since the administration cited FISA's inadequacy as its reason for creating the NSA program in the first place. It's hard to see how FISA (which requires a showing of probable cause and judicial approval) ...