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Democrats Today Will Kill Any & All Chance to Impeach Bush
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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 366680" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>That's the whole problem, nobody knows because there was no oversight, judicial or otherwise. The purpose of the telecom lawsuits was to find out exactly who the government spied on and why. The lawsuit against AT&T is a class action that represents anyone in their customer base who may have been spied on, had their communications monitored, etc, without just cause. One effect of the FISA bill that was passed yesterday will be to prevent anyone from ever finding out by dismissing the lawsuits and, in addition, grant full immunity to the telecoms involved despite the fact that no one even knows what laws they broke, and to what extent. It's a terrible precedent which effectively establishes that that the government can order people and corporations to break the law, then subsequently grant them immunity from being prosecuted for whatever crimes they commit while in the service of the government, in addition to shielding them (and the government) from any investigation to ascertain exactly what laws they broke and why.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 366680, member: 4805"] That's the whole problem, nobody knows because there was no oversight, judicial or otherwise. The purpose of the telecom lawsuits was to find out exactly who the government spied on and why. The lawsuit against AT&T is a class action that represents anyone in their customer base who may have been spied on, had their communications monitored, etc, without just cause. One effect of the FISA bill that was passed yesterday will be to prevent anyone from ever finding out by dismissing the lawsuits and, in addition, grant full immunity to the telecoms involved despite the fact that no one even knows what laws they broke, and to what extent. It's a terrible precedent which effectively establishes that that the government can order people and corporations to break the law, then subsequently grant them immunity from being prosecuted for whatever crimes they commit while in the service of the government, in addition to shielding them (and the government) from any investigation to ascertain exactly what laws they broke and why. [/QUOTE]
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