[privacy] Senate Dems Reportedly Agree To Immunize Spying Telecoms

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Threat Level.

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Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee will include retroactive
legal protections for telecoms that helped with the government's secret
surveillance programs after the administration handed over some of the
legal documents about the program that the Congress has been asking for,
according to the Washington Post.

The deal worked out with the administration at the same time that House
Republicans ran procedural circles around the majority party, who was
forced to remove their FISA reform bill from the House calendar. The House
hoped to move in time to send a message to the Senate.

The deal reportedly would let the telecoms get out of the 50 or so suits
pending against them for violating the nation's privacy laws, so long as
they can show to a judge in secret that they were given a legal order to
help the government.

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More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/senate-dems-rep.html

WaPo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR200710170
2438.html

- - ferg

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