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Warrantless Surveillance: Immunity Sought Sought for Phone Companies - UPDATE

Ellen Nakashima writes in The Washington Post:

The Bush administration is urging Congress to pass an immunity law that would halt dozens of lawsuits charging phone companies and the government with invading ordinary citizens' privacy through a post-9/11 warrantless surveillance program.

The measure is part of a legislative package drafted by the Justice Department to relax restrictions in the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that govern the administration's ability to intercept electronic communications in the United States. If passed, the proposed changes would forestall efforts to compel disclosure of the program's details through Congress or the court system.

More here.

Stop Illegal Spying -- before they make it law.

UPDATE: 21:06 PDT: Ryan Singel has some choice commentary over on Threat Level here.

posted by Fergie @ 5/03/2007 08:13:00 PM