A Tale of Two Robertsons . . . .

But really just one.

A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources. In a move reminiscent of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, and his 10 Commandments stand in Montgomery, U.S. District Judge James Robertson, one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court turned in his walking papers. Hoping to further fuel a nascent political debacle, Robertson, not to be confused with the Chief Justice of either Alabama or the U.S., played the coy boy when asked about the reasons for his resignation. Allegedly, a crack team of Democratic strategists, including Martin Sheen and Michael Moore, are locked deep beneath secret ACLU headquarters in Islamabad, crafting a speech for the former FISA judge to give at his moveon.org coronation later this spring, at the event formerly known as the Academy Awards. An unidentified Robertson' spokesperson admitted that the judge is looking forward to a brief swell of adulation followed by a precipitous fall into anonymity.