Tom Perriello is running against Rep. Virgil Goode (R), who of course voted for telecom immunity. Perriello's statement (via e-mail):
June 20, 2008 – Ivy, VA - Tom Perriello, the Democratic nominee for Virginia's Fifth District, today denounced Congress for capitulating to President Bush and allowing warrant-less spying on innocent Americans. Congress struck a deal on Thursday on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (HR 3773), changing the rules on the government's wiretapping powers and providing legal immunity to the phone companies that took part in President Bush's program of eavesdropping on American citizens.
"This "compromise" will not make Americans safer," said Perriello, a national security consultant with experience in Afghanistan, Darfur and West Africa. "If Congress and the President were serious about national security they would have spent their time and energy giving our brave intelligence officers the resources they need, not the American freedoms that our armed forces defend. Our constitutional principles are never up for negotiation."