Is Keith Olbermann flip-flopping on FISA?

The segment in question

Perhaps you've been turning on your internal mute button every time you've heard mention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and I could hardly blame you. For one thing, it seems like exactly the kind of arcane legislation you elected a senator to worry about. For another, the people fulminating loudest about it seem to be on the hard right and hard left.

But if you watch "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," you know FISA is a big deal. Until recently, Olbermann has been a one-man klaxon calling attention to any attempts by White House or the Congress to grant the phone companies immunity for allowing what has basically been a long stretch of illegal spying on their customers by our own government.

So I was surprised to learn from Salon's Glenn Greenwald that Olbermann and his like-minded guests have switched course, and now are generally supporting Sen. Barack Obama's support of a "reform" FISA bill that, according to Greenwald and others, is anything but. Olbermann has since replied and Greenwald has replied to the reply, which actually might be the best place to start.

If you'd rather not plow into all that on a Friday afternoon, may I suggest at least checking out this story I wrote in 2007 about a Kansas City couple that was spied on by their own government and whose case was subsequently featured on an episode of "Frontline" reported by the great Hedrick Smith.