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Re: BEST LAW MONAY CAN BUY -- Senate votes Telecom immunity
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:23:12 -0800
________________________________________ From: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law [froomkin () law miami edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:48 PM To: David Farber Cc: ip Subject: Re: [IP] Re: BEST LAW MONAY CAN BUY -- Senate votes Telecom immunity [for IP, if you wish] As important as the cutting off of the telco civil liability are these other two aspects of the awful Senate bill 1) By closing down the civil suits, we'll never find out via discovery who in the administration made the (undoubtedly knowing) illegal requests, and how they persuaded these very well lawyered companies who were very familiar with their legal duties after 20+ years of experience dealing with such requests to ignore the law they knew so well. The possibility of threats to their government contracts (very illegal acts by government officials) cannot be completely discounted. 2) The constraints on the administration going forward are much weaker than the ones they ignored. And by removing the "exclusivity" clause currently in FISA, the Senate invites the White House to argue that it can ignore the parts of the bill it doesn't like. And we know that this white house likes to do that (see "signing statements"). This bill isn't law yet, and there is talk of a genuine filibuster later on, but even so it is hard for me to understand how anyone who respects the rule of law could vote for this. It is genuinely appalling to me. On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Randall Webmail <rvh40 () insightbb com> Date: February 12, 2008 8:51:12 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] BEST LAW MONAY CAN BUY -- Senate votes Telecom immunity While GWB could (and would be expected to) use his pardon power to make any criminal prosecutions go away - the Senate just gave AT&T a free pass for civil liability as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Farber <dave () farber net> Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 20:34 Subject: [IP] BEST LAW MONAY CAN BUY -- Senate votes Telecom immunity To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>Begin forwarded message: From: Jonathan Ezor <jezor () tourolaw edu> Date: February 12, 2008 4:54:16 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] BEST LAW MONAY CAN BUY -- Senate votes Telecom immunity What an incredible disgrace. I am appalled that particularly the Democratic majority in the Senate is giving a pass to potential illegal conduct by the telecom companies, and therefore implicitly endorsing the many breaches of the Constitution and other laws by the Bush Administration in the alleged name of "homeland security." While I would not be surprised to see President Bush use his pardon power to undo any resulting convictions, to retroactively immunize these companies from even the potential for prosecution is not only damaging to the rule of law, but makes it less likely that the Americanpeople will ever be able to truly find out how many of our civil liberties have been trampled upon. {Jonathan} ------------------- Prof. Jonathan I. Ezor Assistant Professor of Law and Technology Director, Institute for Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) Touro Law Center 225 Eastview Drive, Central Islip, NY 11722 Direct: 631-761-7119 Fax: 516-977-3001 e-mail: jezor () tourolaw edu ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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