ORIN KERR HAS THOUGHTS on the legality of the NSA monitoring project, to the extent that we understand it.

Meanwhile, ABC says it’s polling well: “Americans by nearly a 2-1 ratio call the surveillance of telephone records an acceptable way for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats, expressing broad unconcern even if their own calling patterns are scrutinized.” It’ll be interesting to see if the Congressional complaints continue if other polls show similar results.

UPDATE: Mystery Pollster thinks that these numbers are pretty good.

Plus, a prediction here: “Watch for all the about-faces (that would be face two for two-faced politicos) over the weekend.”