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House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support?
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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Then you are a fucking idiot.
Illegal wiretapping IS the fucking issue here. If Bush started before 9/11 that means the clause that provides immunity to the telcos after 9/11 does not protect them from illegal wiretaps issued before.
fucking conservatives are such fucking idiots some times.
Bush is a fucking idiot too. THAT is bush bashing.
Those must have been Democrat tools, they were nice to look at but didn't seem to work fully. These new tools will work perfectly.
Most likely the wiretapping started during Clinton's Administration.
He is an idiot and a women hating buffoon.
You liberals are too stupid to be idiots. All these things you whine and bitch at were most likely done by Clinton first. He was just too much of a coward to do anything with the information he learned through it.