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| Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill                                |
|   from the always-been-at-war-with-oceania dept.                   |
|   posted by timothy on Wednesday July 09, @16:30 (Privacy)         |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/09/2027248 |
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zehnra writes “The U.S. Senate this afternoon [0]passed the FISA
Amendments Act, broadly expanding the president’s warrantless
surveillance authority and unconstitutionally granting retroactive
immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the
president’s illegal domestic wiretapping program. The House of
Representatives passed the same bill last month, and President Bush is
expected to sign the legislation into law shortly.” The [1]New York Times
has a story, [2]as does the Associated Press (carried here by Yahoo!).
Reader Guppy points out the [3]roll call for the vote.

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/07/09/2027248

Links:
0. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/07/09
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/washington/10fisa.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
2. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/ap_on_go_co/terrorist_surveillance
3. http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00168