The Protect America Act was a near total victory for the administration. But there’s one major aspect that they didn’t succeed in securing — immunity for telecommunication companies that cooperated with the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program dating back to 2001. But as Newsweek reports, a cabal of connected lobbyists are making sure that the administration gets what it wants this time around:
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