Apparently, Congress is ready to grant immunity to the telecom companies that allowed the FBI to illegally tap main communications trunks carrying Internet data. The government says no one except terrorists were targeted, but they didn't go through the courts as was lawful. One of my favorite bloggers puts it this way:
"Congress is now in the process of enshrining into law the precept that the president has the power to secretly grant dispensation giving entities permission to break the laws of the land along with protection from any liability under the “just following orders” defense, and if that doesn’t take the edge off your Independence Day celebration, I don’t know what will."
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