[privacy] Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via The Washington Post.

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Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White
House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on
its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that
telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Arlen
Specter (Pa.), the ranking Republican, said any such agreement would be
"unacceptable," signaling that legislation granting immunity to certain
telecom carriers could run into trouble. Leahy and Specter demanded that
the documents, which were provided only to the Intelligence Committee, be
turned over to the Judiciary Committee as well.

At issue is a White House-endorsed measure that would give immunity to
telecom carriers being sued for allegedly helping the National Security
Agency spy on Americans after September 11, 2001. It is part of a larger
bill to rework the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The
Intelligence Committee has approved the bill and sent it to the Judiciary
Committee for deliberation.

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More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/22/AR200710220
2268.html

- - ferg

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