Fergie's Tech Blog

House Democrats Proposing Commission to Investigate Warrantless Spying

Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level:

Not only shouldn't companies that helped the government's warrantless spying on American citizens be given retroactive amnesty, the government should establish a national commission --- similar to the 9/11 Commission --to subpoena documents and testimony in order to find out -- and publish -- what exactly the nation's spies were up to during their five year warrantless, domestic surveillance program.

In other words, House Democrats aren't planning a compromise on telecom amnesty and are actually going on offense to find a way to learn more about President Bush's five-year secret "Total Information Awareness" program.

posted by Fergie @ 3/11/2008 01:20:00 PM