Good Night and Good Luck

First we learn, belatedly, that President Bush has authorized the NSA to spy on U.S. citizens without having to secure a warrant from the courts. Now, we learn that the FBI, also acting with 9/11 as its justification, is assembling dossiers on groups as diverse as Greenpeace and Catholic Workers -- the latter suspicious for having -- get this -- "semi-communistic ideology." Suddenly, it's 1950 all over again.