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| New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow       |
|   from the difference-between-legal-and-right dept.                |
|   posted by timothy on Thursday June 19, @15:40 (Privacy)          |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/19/1931226 |
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An anonymous reader writes “This just in: a new [0]‘compromise’ FISA Bill
(PDF) was just made public, which, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
reports, ‘[1]contains blanket immunity for telecoms that helped the NSA
break the law and spy on millions of ordinary Americans.’ The House vote
is tomorrow, June 20. After all the [2]secret [3]rooms and everything …
if they get immunity and the public never finds out what happened, the
only other logical next step is to convince everyone I know not to get an
iPhone.” [4]CNN covers this get-out-of-lawsuit play as well.

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/06/19/1931226

Links:
0. http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/FISAINTRO_001_xml.pdf
1. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/06/eff-obtains-new-fisa-bill-containing-telecom-immun
2. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060412-6585.html
3. http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/20/another-att-secret-room-revealed/
4. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/19/congress.wiretaps/index.html