Guess who tried to warn, almost four years ago, of potential NSL problems in the FBI? That's right, the same person who couldn't land a job on the President's Civil Liberties Oversight Board despite a bi-partisan congressional recommendation.

Another of my failed warnings has just metastasized into a national news scandal. Look at what I tried to point out about the NSL problem back in mid 2003 as part of a much longer paper on...