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Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions

Corrupt notes an Ars analysis of the FISA bill of which the telecom immunity provision has been getting all the attention. Timothy B. Lee enumerates the ways in which the bill loosens current protections on domestic wiretapping and opens up whole new areas to government eavesdropping. "The legislation eliminates meaningful judicial oversight of eavesdropping between American citizens and foreigners located overseas, and effectively legalizes dragnet surveillance of domestic-to-foreign traffic. It stretches out the judicial review process so much that the government will in many cases be able to complete its surveillance activities before the courts finish deciding on its legality."

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  1. Re:Yello (belly) alert by Tenrosei · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like to believe that the reason we have more murders then terrorist deaths is because we want to prove that we can do it better than outsourcing can.

  2. Re:Yello (belly) alert by UncleTogie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your government is the one who orchestrated all those planes craches in the first place.
    Governments ares run by people even more deceptive than you could ever imagine.

    ...are you talking about the same people that couldn't even keep a simple blow-job quiet?

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