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The Politics of Eavesdropping

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball write on Newsweek:

A White House campaign to win quick passage of a major surveillance bill has hit a new snag in recent days: four Democratic presidential candidates have signaled their intention to oppose the measure as it is currently written.

Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut took the lead last week when he vowed to filibuster a version of the bill overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The bill gives retroactive immunity from lawsuits to major telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program after 9/11. In a statement blasting the program as "unconscionable," Dodd said he would "do everything in my power to stop Congress from shielding this president's agenda of secrecy, deception, and blatant unlawfulness."

posted by Fergie @ 10/24/2007 07:06:00 PM