Take that, John Ashcroft! Congress is withdrawing support for John Poindexter’s network of email spies. Seems that Congress doesn’t like the idea of someone who was convicted of lying to them heading up a program that would cyber-spy on American citizens. I’m going to take this as a good sign that Patriot Act II is going down.

In related news, John Aschroft is launching his own internet service provider, especially designed for Patriotic Americans™. Ashcroft Online 1.0: if you’re not doing anything unAmerican, why do you need privacy?