Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has a choice. Both the Senate intelligence committee and Senate Judiciary Committee produced versions of the surveillance bills last month. But there’s a crucial difference between the two. The intelligence committee’s bill contains retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that collaborated with the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. The judiciary committee’s does not.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179191