It is very reassuring that quite a few of even the liberal / libertarian commentators are ready to embrace the assumption that tapping into foreign-foreign communications is ok, and that the problem is only when foreign-domestic / foreign-citizen communications are tapped.

Now that the Protect America Act has been passed and signed into law, I hope one of the senators or someone in the White House realizes the pot of gold we are sitting on. As part of the extensive set up needed to monitor the communications, I suggest that we add a division that will seek out contracts from foreign governments for information requests. Depending on who or what they are after, we can quote a price and make a packet. Hey, its as legal as extra-ordinary rendition is.

If we all agree then oil would be back to under a dollar and maybe we could even wipe clean the federal deficit. If not, until its leaked out, we would be trading dossiers for torturing one more of those 'unlawful enemy combatants'.

After having worked this hard to gather all this information, wouldn't it be nice to get the information to do some work for us?