For McCain, A Switch On Telecom Immunity?

For McCain, A Switch On Telecom Immunity?
Recent Statements Signal Deeper Privacy Concerns

A top lawyer for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign said telecommunications companies should be forced to explain their role in the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program as a condition for legal immunity for past wiretapping, a statement that stands in marked contrast to positions taken by President Bush, McCain and other Republicans in Congress.

"There would need to be hearings, real hearings, to find out what actually happened, what harms actually occurred, rather than some sort of sweeping of things under the rug," Chuck Fish, a former vice president and chief patent counsel at Time Warner, said last week at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in New Haven, Conn., according to an audiotape available on the conference Web site. "That would be absolutely verboten in a McCain administration."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052802967.html

No. Uh-uh.