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  • Feb
  • 13
  • 2008

Senate Approves Surveillance Bill, Preserves Telecom Immunit

The Senate voted today to preserve retroactive immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with a government eavesdropping program, decisively rejecting an amendment that would have stripped the provision from a bill to modernize an electronic surveillance law.

The most important change approved by the Senate yesterday would make permanent a law approved last August that expanded the government’s authority to intercept — without a court order — the phone calls and e-mails of…


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karlo
karlo

If anyone in any state where their legislators have voted for this do not attempt to get their legislators out of office now, we don’t even need an America because we don’t have citizens who deserve it.



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