This picked up by NPR in April 2007:
Bush Administration Urges Changes to FISA
by Martin Kaste
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The ACLU and other privacy groups object to another proposed change that offers legal cover to anybody — or any company — that cooperates with the government's spying.
Several major phone companies have been sued for sharing their customers' phone records with the government, and suits from around the country are being rolled into a massive case in a federal court in San Francisco. But if the Bush administration's changes are passed, the companies would get immunity, retroactive to Sept. 11, 2001.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9724356Is this still an active provision of new "emergency" bill being crafted that we've been talking about? If it is, what are Pelosi, Reid and other Dem lawmakers planning to do about this part?
Just asking...