What's this?

CNET going all Comedy Central on us now? Here's CNET's Declan McCullagh reporting on how those jolly jokesters at the FBI have been snarfing up internet traffic recently:

It raises concerns similar to those stirred by widespread Internet monitoring that the National Security Agency is said to have done, according to documents that have surfaced in one federal lawsuit, and may stretch the bounds of what's legally permissible.

Declan! Come on! I've watched Jon Stewart and you, Sir, are no Jon Stewart.

Of course it's kind of sad to know "what's legally permissible" is now nothing but a laugh line. But if you watched little Alberto testifying over at the Senate the other day you could hardly think anything else.