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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[Anonymous Coward]

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[gweihir]

9/11 didn't send our economy into a tailspin. An ill-planned war, and greed (mortgage "investment") sent our economy into a tailspin.

Well, technically the ill-planned war was the demented and completely incompetent reaction the 9/11 masterminds wanted. So terrorism is actually partially to blame for the economic situation. Of course stupidity by the political actors is what made it possible. This stupidity is now so pronounced, that it is completely obvious to people from a massively different culture with completely different world-view. Truely pathetic. I expect that the survivors of the 9/11 team still have not stopped laughing.