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Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill
zehnra writes "The U.S. Senate this afternoon passed the FISA Amendments Act, broadly expanding the president's warrantless surveillance authority and unconstitutionally granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the president's illegal domestic wiretapping program. The House of Representatives passed the same bill last month, and President Bush is expected to sign the legislation into law shortly." The New York Times has a story, as does the Associated Press (carried here by Yahoo!). Reader Guppy points out the roll call for the vote.
...is how you guys want to play. Fine whatever. Except you better be looking over your shoulders constantly. This is not the end. It is only the beginning.
Why wouldn't he?
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
I don't think you need to put "close to..." in that statement; the loon does whatever the hell he wants but the evil lies in Cheney. And I thought Hans Reiser was bad...
Better a capitalist McCain than a socialist Obama.
What really cracks me up is that deep down, McCain is probably more liberal than Obama, yet both have to put up a show to appeal to their "base."
I wonder which one will make a worse president though.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
unconstitutionally granting retroactive immunity
You're not actually in charge of deciding what is and is not constitutional. Just so you know.
This isn't the first retroactive law passed by our government and the previous ones were not thrown out.
Why should the phone company be in line to get sued for the government itself.
This will put the whole of any case up to the government and protect the telephone companies from frivolous law suits
Sure glad i'm european ... gah
. Why, because you don't have any privacy rights to give up in the first place?