Wiretapping and Telecom Forgiveness Passed

[Pangloss]

The House took out the trash late Friday (too late in the day for major news reporting), overwhelmingly passing the new wiretapping law, giving the White House a major victory in the War on Terror. The bill re-approves FISA and also gives the telecoms (more or less) a pass on their liability for earlier wiretapping.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/washington/21fisacnd.html?hp

 

The bill is expected to pass the senate, also by a wide margin, and will, of course, be signed by the not-so-lame-duck President.

 

Yessiree, those Democrats (who also reauthorized Iraqi war spending last week) sure are changing things in Washington!

[ecoli]

*sigh* I thought they were letting FISA expire?

[Mr Skeptic]

Bigger and better! Oh, wait. Just bigger. What's the point of having laws if the people it applies to are allowed to break them, hmm?