Does Senate FISA bill immunize FBI 'black-bag jobs'?  The FBI
once regularly (and surreptitiously) broke into Americans'
homes, offices. Now a Senate bill seems to offer immunity to
anyone who helps the government do just that.  A few decades
ago, the FBI regularly conducted "black-bag jobs" that involved
sneaking into homes, hotel rooms and offices with the
cooperation of the building's owner or even a neighbor with a
spare key. Locks were picked otherwise.  Because no judge had
authorized the FBI's black-bag job, they were incredibly
illegal. In the mid-1970s, the Church Committee famously
disclosed the bureau's clandestine operations.  Declan
McCullagh/  Now President Bush is backing a bill that seems to
encourage the FBI to revert to some of its old habits.  The FISA
Amendments Act, approved by a Senate committee last week, seems
to immunize people who cooperated with the FBI, the CIA, the
National Security Agency--and other even more shadowy agencies--
that conduct black-bag jobs.  Although most of the at