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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:00 AM

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.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Wednesday, September 19, 2007 06:09 AM

    It's been in the works for a couple weeks

    Some of the earlier moves are here:

    http://pruningshears.squarespace.com/pruning-shears/2007/9/16/this-week-in-tyranny.html

    There's no reason for anyone to be immune from breaking the law just because the president says so.

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