Sen. Chris Dodd has put a hold in the Senate bill that would provide retroactive immunity to the telcoms who cooperated with the criminal Bush regime. The problem with the bill is that it substituted legislative review by a few members of the Senate for full judicial review, as the Times reports:
Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill
Some Telecom Companies Would Receive Immunity
By Jonathan Weisman and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, October 18, 2007; Page A01
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday with the Bush administration that would give telephone carriers legal immunity for any role they played in the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping program approved by President Bush after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Congressional official said Wednesday.
Senators this week began reviewing classified documents related to the participation of the telephone carriers in the security agency program and came away from that early review convinced that the companies had “acted in good faith” in cooperating with what they believed was a legal and presidentially authorized program and that they should not be punished through civil litigation for their roles, the official said.
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