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Breaking: Telecom Immunity and Lobbying Disclosure

Wed Nov 28, 2007 at 03:29:08 PM PDT

It's just coming across the wire that the EFF has won the speedy release of telecoms industry lobbying records from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (that's Mike McConnell, folks) pertaining to pending legislation about modification of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), part of which potentially includes something the telecom companies desperately want: retroactive immunity from prosecution for potentially illegal acts of domestic surveillance.


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