During periods, like now, when the House of Representatives goes bat-shit crazy (a recurrent phenomenon in our political history), commenting soberly on its productions is absurd. The questions of importance in Washington are, what is the White House going to ask for, and what are there 60 votes in the Senate to do? CISPA offers no guidance on those points, being nothing but the production of the bat-shit crazy House of Representatives.

So if this is current legal or political analysis, I think it misses the point. Conceptually, all governments will now attempt to listen to and data-mine anything they can, and the degree to which they can will be determined by local public opinion within their societies. Other social institutions will facilitate that listening to the extent that they are bribed or forced, and are not prevented by the rule of law.

The White House is currently deciding how much new authority to listen to the Net it wants to ask for, given the current climate of public opinion. The Senate will present a constellation of difficulties you could give good political analysis about, as you could about the nature of the forces within the Administration carry the President towards his eventual decisions.