Updated below: Republican Sen. Specter opposed to FISA compromise With a vote expected as soon as Friday on a controversial surveillance law, activists are shifting into high gear a lobbying effort aimed at convincing moderate Democrats to stand for civil liberties and against a whitewash of lawless behavior from the Bush administration. The American Civil Liberties Union is teaming with supporters of former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and scores of liberal bloggers to pressure Congress on the surveillance law; the effort is calling itself Strange Bedfellows. House and Senate leaders announced Thursday they had reached an accord in a yearlong fight over domestic spying; the deal would essentially legalize the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program and would cause courts to dismiss privacy...
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