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Are Democrats planning still worse FISA capitulations?

The NYT reports that Democrats are planning to provide retroactive immunity to telecoms which broke the law by allowing warrantless eavesdropping.
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  • Wednesday, September 19, 2007 06:14 AM

    Ex post facto

    The Constitution only bans laws which render illegal acts which, at the time they were undertaken, were legal. It doesn't prohibit laws that do the opposite.

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