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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.
Oh, don't worry. They'll gladly show the judge the corpse.
This guy's the limit!
I wrote my senators. Fat lot of good that shit does.
You probably forgot to put a few $100 bills in the envelopes.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Now the government has the tools it needs to protect us. Don't you feel more protected? I feel more protected!
My freedoms are so protected too. Freedom to write things like:
"I wish each member of the Bush administration was dipped in a vat full of Poison Oak sap, and that each senator and representative was made to take turns scratching the oozing blisters on their private parts."
Wow, you said something against Obama. The moderation rollercoaster will be fun to see.
But it also had some excellent usage of guillotines on people who had betrayed their countrymen.
McCain abstained, which I guess makes him a "moderate" on the issue of screwing us over at every opportunity.
Tired of choosing the lesser of two evils? Vote Cthulhu in '08! No more years!
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
If everyone did that, we'd probably elect Oprah.
Which, all things considered, I'm sure would be a big improvement.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Unfortunately I don't think I can carry a guillotine on to a plane anymore, especially not one headed to Washington.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Sure glad i'm european
Yes, because regimes that violate civil liberties have never come to power in Europe.....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
So does this now mean that my phone bill rates/fees be be lowered?
You know..., because of all the lawsuit and legal counsel *savings* the telecoms have now that they cannot be sued ala immunity ex post facto...?
does that mean we'd all get free cars?
I should be using my vacation time to go campaign for him (as I have been planning) when he just reversed himself on a major promise to his supporters?
Obama will say "green" a lot in the next few weeks, babble about "corporations", promise "free" healthcare and you'll be right back in line.
No worries.
I wish I could vote "None of the above." in elections. Today is really one of them, which sadly seems more like every day.
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
Why do you want President Obama's administration to have less authority than President Bush?
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
I ran into a *lot* of people that were on the *far* side of weird every time I went there.
Any beach in Europe will have 1/4th of the women going topless. And *nobody* *cares*
Europeans don't like boobs, and you're calling us weird??