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House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support?

Posted by kdawson on from the now-we-will-never-know dept.

We discussed telecom immunity yesterday ahead of the House vote. It passed by 293 votes to 129. Only one Republican voted against the bill; Democrats were evenly split. It now goes to the Senate. Reader Verteiron points out that Glenn Greenwald has up a post titled "Statement of Barack Obama supporting Hoyer FISA bill." It says that Obama will try to get the immunity provision removed, but failing that will vote for the overhauled wiretapping bill anyway. I couldn't find this on Obama's official site. Anyone seen a position from the McCain camp?

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  1. Re:Hope and Change by glarbl_blarbl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thanks to Congress' passage of the Military Commissions Act, W can impose martial law whenever he feels like it... I'm waiting for him to trump up some excuse around the middle of October, extra points if it involves Iran.

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  2. Re:What's special about 9/11/2001? by /dev/trash · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Dude. if we had had the tools then, the towers would still be there.

  3. Re:Don't be so quick to judge! by 3p1ph4ny · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Please do NOT vote libertarian. Our candidate is an idiot, and he is NOT what our party should stand for.