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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Congress Again Preparing to Buckle on Telecom
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Thu Jun 19 17:45:38 2008
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:32:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Congress Again Preparing to Buckle on Telecom Wiretapping Immunity
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000392.html
Greetings. It appears that once again Congress is preparing to
grant the telephone companies retroactive immunity for their illegal
Bush administration wiretapping operations. Negotiators have built
in a meaningless new district court aspect but in reality it's still
plain old immunity
( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/washington/20fisacnd.html ).
The real issue here isn't whether the telcos were just "following
orders" or not, but the more important point that if immunity is
granted, we likely lose any significant ability to ever find out how
far into the illicit wiretapping depths the administration was
willing to go, since the raft of pending lawsuits would probably be
dismissed.
This is unacceptable. The House "compromise" should be rejected.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
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Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, NNSquad
- Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
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