If you liked the Protect America Act — President Bush’s sweeping revision to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act signed into law in August — you’re going to love the soon-to-be-unveiled surveillance bill from the Senate intelligence committee. President Bush and Admiral Mike McConnell do, at least. A day after the White House made available to the committee “millions” of pages of material documenting how the telecommunications industry complied with warrantless requests for Americans’ international communications after 9/11, the committee wrote into its bill a provision granting the industry retroactive immunity from customer lawsuits that the White House has long desired.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179586