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New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow

Posted by timothy on from the difference-between-legal-and-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This just in: a new 'compromise' FISA Bill (PDF) was just made public, which, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reports, 'contains blanket immunity for telecoms that helped the NSA break the law and spy on millions of ordinary Americans.' The House vote is tomorrow, June 20. After all the secret rooms and everything ... if they get immunity and the public never finds out what happened, the only other logical next step is to convince everyone I know not to get an iPhone." CNN covers this get-out-of-lawsuit play as well.

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  1. Re:The message this would send by sconeu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just to be pedantic, it would have been damned difficult to indict Kennedy after his term, since he was dead.

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  2. Re:Politicians will vote for the law by bsDaemon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm gonna vote for the guy who doesn't make me feel stupid." That explains Bush... not sure which way that indicates people going this time...
  3. I see by biolysis · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I'm gonna vote for the guy who doesn't make me feel stupid."

    So you don't vote then.

  4. Oh AC, you bold revolutionary! by GroeFaZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    if they get immunity and the public never finds out what happened, the only other logical next step is to convince everyone I know not to get an iPhone.

    Verily! That will show The Man who's boss!

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  5. Re:Call Barack Obama by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Complaining to Nancy Pelosi about big government is like complaining to Jesse Jackson about hip hop.