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Explaining the Dem's Collapse on Surveillance Bill: The Law of Fear

By Jonathan Simor

As Dan Eggen and Paul Kane reported in yesterday's Washington Post, Democrats have handed Bush yet another victory in legitimating his approach to the war on terror.House and Senate leaders agreed yesterday on surveillance legislation that could shield telecommunications companies from privacy lawsuits, handing President Bush one of the last major legislative victories he is likely to achieve.The agreement extends the government's ability to eavesdrop on espionage and terrorism suspects while effectively providing a legal escape hatch for AT&T, Verizon Communications and other telecom firms. They face more than 40 lawsuits that allege they violated customers' privacy rights by helping the government conduct a warrantless spying program after the Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on June 21, 2008 (boomark / email).