Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy says it’s not time to mend FISA but to end it:

“We should all breathe a sigh of relief that sanity prevailed when Congress enacted emergency legislation over the weekend to address a national-security crisis: the hamstringing of our intelligence community‚Äôs ability to eavesdrop on agents of foreign powers situated overseas and bent on killing Americans.

I would keep the cork on the champagne bottle, though — and not just because this eleventh-hour fix of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will lapse in six months, nor because it is absurd that we should ever have been arguing over anything so silly in the first place.

We should be horrified by this crisis because of what caused it: FISA and judges.

We should be equally affronted by the hypocrisy of congressional Democrats and the leftwing commentariat. It‚Äôs not national security or the ‚Äúrule of law‚Äù they care about. It‚Äôs politics ‚Äî plain, simple, and brass-knuckled. The calculation: If George W. Bush can be hurt a polling point or two (yes, there‚Äôs still room to go down) by posturing over law-breaking, it‚Äôs okay to roll the dice with our lives. ”

The fact that FISA is a bad idea which time has come to be put to bed. Courts were never intended to muddle in the waters of national security and few judges are qualified to make such judgements. As McCarthy rightly puts it, the President has the ultimate authority and moral responsibility to protect this country against all enemies foreign and domestic.

The silly smoke screen of the left claiming the erosion of civil liberties shows how posssed with BDS they are and how they would rather leave us open to another 9/11 if only they can get their hits in on Bush.

Maybe it’s time to get rid of the left as well.