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| Subject: Showdown: House Democrats Defy White House On Spy Program Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:31 am | |
| Defying White House demands to pass a surveillance measure to expand domestic spy powers and provide legal immunity for companies that assisted the government with warrantless eavesdropping, House Democrats are drafting a new proposal that refuses to grant immunity. It would also create a commission to evaluate the warrantless spy effort dubbed the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
By resisting White House pressure to accept the immunity provision, the proposal virtually ensures that the heated debate over how to revise domestic surveillance laws will continue past this week, as lawmakers prepare to depart Friday for a two-week recess. A temporary measure to ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120518585020725291.html?mod=fpa_whatsnews _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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