Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms

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Glenn Greenwald
Tuesday February 12, 2008 07:01 EST
Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms
(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update
V) 

The Senate today -- led by Jay Rockefeller, enabled by Harry
Reid, and with the active support of at least 12 (and probably
more) Democrats, in conjunction with an as-always lockstep GOP
caucus -- will vote to legalize warrantless spying on the
telephone calls and emails of Americans, and will also provide
full retroactive amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, thus forever
putting an end to any efforts to investigate and obtain a
judicial ruling regarding the Bush administration's years-long
illegal spying programs aimed at Americans. The long, hard
efforts by AT&T, Verizon and their all-star, bipartisan
cast of lobbyists to grease the wheels of the Senate -- led by
former Bush 41 Attorney General William Barr and former
Clinton Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick -- are about to
pay huge dividends, as such noble efforts invariably do with
our political establishment. 

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