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White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity

Posted by kdawson on from the running-scared-of-being-called-soft-on-terrism dept.

EllisDees sends in a Washington Post report that Senate Republicans have outmaneuvered Democrats, who withdrew a more stringent version of legislation to control the government's domestic surveillance program. The legislation that will go forward includes a grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have assisted the program.

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  1. This is great news! I support the White House! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    (In case anyone is watching)

  2. Game Over by varmittang · · Score: 4, Funny

    Game over man! Game over!

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  3. I was depressed about this... by Xochi77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    but then I remembered I'm not American! Seriously, I'm over the whole horror of your brutal invasion of Iraq, trampling of civil rights, endorsements of torture. I'm now just watching news about american politics like its an episode of 24. Try it sometime, its actually pretty enjoyable. You had the regular spies, corrupt politician etc. But now you have mercenaries with cool names like Blackwater, unnamed gov. agencies tracking every piece of digital data, hidden detention centers... I'm waiting for the nex big twist. Maybe, it comes out that the drug war was a move by the CIA to push up drug prices, so the gov could make more money to fund their secret mercenary wars by smuggling in drugs, while at the same time filling up the prisons with second class citizens unable to vote, but conscriptable! hmmmm, I can't even tink up insane conspircy theories that aren't plausable anymore... cool!

    1. Re:I was depressed about this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
      Right here in hollywood

  4. Re:Who watches the watchers? by Echolima · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Illuminati

  5. Re:Bush Win = Constitutional Loss by omeomi · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's apparently 'reasonable' to monitor everyone in time of war. Luckily, we're always at war.

    Shhhhh!!! We're not supposed to notice that!

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  6. Re:This is great news! I support the White House! by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

    That might have worked fifteen years ago, when the NSA was only using hundreds of thousands of 15 nm CMOS processors in their surveillance super clusters (a super cluster is a cluster placed above another cluster).

    Now that they have their trillion-node quantum computer cluster with Strong AI they can easily detect sarcasm and insincerity, and you have surely been marked as a dissident.

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  7. Re:Bush Win = Constitutional Loss by kalirion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stephen Colbert: "This is the famous pocket constitution... did you shrink this down yourself?"
    Dennis Kucinich: "No, no, no. George Bush already did that."

  8. Re:who else in congress has a 'wide stance'? by Scrameustache · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or maybe it saves lives, has saved U.S. life at home and abroad, and they can prove it. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but Santa Claus isn't real.
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  9. It's true, we are. by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look, folks. The Alamo ended on March 6th 1836. We cannot afford to be complacent -- we live in a post-3/6/1836 world now.