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Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill

Posted by timothy on from the always-been-at-war-with-oceania dept.

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.

3 of 1,088 comments (clear)

  1. Re:MOTHER FUCKING TRAITORS by foysavas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    www.freegovernment.org -- mod it up: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=762973

  2. Re:We had one. by n0-0p · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The only upheaval was committee control. The Blue Dogs and Lieberman actually make Congress vote as a Republican on anything related to Iraq or national security. The moral is that you need to pay attention to who your politicians are, not just what party they're affiliated with.

  3. Re:Whew, your telcos are safe. by electrosoccertux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and as usual, Ron Paul.