NEBRASKA BLUE

Sen. Christopher Dodd, (D-Conn) has threatened to Fillibuster the current Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill S. 2248 if it contains language conferring Immunity for the Telecoms for past and current ILLEGAL wiretapping of Americans communications. Unfortuneatly, Sen Harry Reid of Nevada is rolling over and playing right into this travesty of justice, Bush wants to shove down American’s throats.

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Read more here - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/15/politics/main3622108.shtml

The part most people don’t know about is… http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/071102nj1.htm

Beginning in February 2001, almost seven months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the government’s top electronic eavesdropping organization, the National Security Agency, asked a major U.S. telecommunications carrier for information about its customers and the flow of electronic traffic across its network, according to sources familiar with the request. The carrier, Qwest Communications, refused, believing that the request was illegal unless accompanied by a court order.

BUT…

All the OTHER Telco’s rolled over and said yes sir…. Look at anything you would like,
and they NOW know they are in deep legal trouble for doing that, and they are scared as hell it will come back to haunt them in 2008 / 2009… when Bush and friends aren’t there to protect them anymore.

Hence the new immunity deal for them, which is WRONG!!! Sen Dodd knows this, as well as anyone half a lick of sense…

Here’s a good story about the FISA bill and where it goes from here….

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/16/3140/5458/343/422731108