Glenn Greenwald has been waging his own little war against Time columnist Joe Klein for more than a week now owing to what Greenwald says was a “factually false” description of the FISA legislation in the House in Klein’s latest piece. According to Greenwald, the error lies in Klein’s claim that the bill “require[s] the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target’s calls to be approved by the FISA court.” Klein responded to Greenwald here, but apparently didn’t go far enough to satisfy his critics, and it’s been back and forth for a few days now. Klein allowed that he might have misinterpreted the Democratic position, and “If I did, a correction will appear in the print magazine next week. This only got him into more trouble with his friends on the left, ultimately leading to this gem from Klein:
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