ALERT: Tell them NO IMMUNITY = Senate and House Moving on Spying Bills By Ryan Singel [View All]

NOW is when to communicate to ALL Congress members to not encourage corporate law breaking by forgiving crimes after the fact!

SAY NO to Telecom immunity. FOCUS on Sen. Feinstein in particular! (202) 224-3841 http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.Home
Thank Sen. Feingold for his initiative in opposition to the Intelligence Comm. markup. http://feingold.senate.gov/contact.html

Meanwhile, on C-SPAN, they still are not back to the FISA debate.

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Senate and House Moving on Spying Bills
By Ryan Singel - November 15, 2007
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/senate-and-hous.html

Congress is contemplating making more changes to the nation's spy laws Thursday - including considering proposals to grant amnesty to the nation's telecoms for violating the nation's privacy laws and to let the NSA continue to wiretap inside the United States without individual warrants. The move is an attempt to scale back, in part, the wide powers Congress handed to the government in August in rush legislation that was passed after the administration said the nation was in immediate danger.

The House is set to vote on their modifications of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as the Restore Act as soon as 3 p.m. this afternoon. At the same time, the Senate Judiciary Committee is marking up a companion measure that passed through the Senate Intelligence committee earlier this month.

The Senate Intelligence bill includes blanket immunity for telecoms that are being sued for violating the nation's privacy laws for helping the government target Americans for surveillance without getting court warrants. The House bill does not have that provision, and the Senate Judiciary committee will be debating that issue this afternoon.

That committee has 10 Democrats and 9 Republicans, but two Democrats on the committee - Sens. Dianne Feinstein (California) and Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island) voted to include that immunity in the Senate Intelligence Committee vote in October. ....