Congress can give the telecom companies immunity from criminal and civil prosecution for illegally tapping the phones of millions of citizens. So why can’t Congress offer a sort of immunity to AIG for not paying up on these so called “contracts”? I guess our constitution just isn’t as important as the people who helped run […]
A grassroots group is trying to generate enough revenue to run a national ad asking to get redo the FISA bill and strip telecom immunity. The ad they want to run, as well as way’s to help is here. There is much more at Wired.
And the spineless Democrats have agreed to immunity for the telecom giants. Glenn Greenwald has all the details on this travesty and McJoan has some steps you can take to help preserve our nation of laws.
“The President is wrong and he knows it!” That’s the words of Nancy Pelosi in her response to Bush’s little presser this morning. According to McJoan at Daily Kos there are a lot more House Democrats now siding with the law on this. This is great news. Hopefully the Senate will take notice and the […]
That’s what we are becoming, and it’s all in the name of “terror”: The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans’ telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies. The breach occurred before the FBI enacted broad new […]
Easy. They want money! With the House Democrats’ refusal to grant retroactive immunity to phone companies – stalling the rewrite of the warrantless wiretapping program – GOP leadership aides are grumbling that their party isn’t getting more political money from the telecommunications industry. Yes we will change the laws to give you protection from the […]
Since the Supreme Court is saying people can’t sue the telecom companies for illegal wiretapping, unless the plaintiff has actual documents proving it occurred (ie: they have the classified documents of who was tapped – which they won’t get), does that mean we can just get rid of the whole telecom immunity part of the […]
According to director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, it is so the telecom companies can survive: “It’s true that some of the authorities would carry over to the period they were established for one year. That would put us into the August, September time frame. However, that’s not the real issue. The issue is liability […]
The House Republicans just stomped their feet and walked out of the House in protest to the FISA bill not being on the floor right now. UPDATE: The Republican leadership is speaking. They are trying to spin this as being the exact same law that is in effect now. No – there wasn’t telecom immunity […]
Because why should we be a nation of laws? Of the two Democratic senators running for the White House, can you guess which one bothered to even show up and vote against this? If you guessed Hillary then you’re wrong.