Under cover of darkness, those flippin' scumbag Democrats " compromised " and granted BushCo and the telcos immunity for their lawbreaking.
The Crypt: FISA Deal completed, House vote likely tomorrow - Politico.com
That Steny Hoyer sure is a lying sack of sh it. He denied all week long that this immunity was contained within this bill.
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21 SEC. 802. PROCEDURES FOR IMPLEMENTING STATUTORY
22 DEFENSES.
23 (a) REQUIREMENT FOR CERTIFICATION.Notwith
24 standing any other provision of law, a civil action may not
25 lie or be maintained in a Federal or State court against
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1 any person for providing assistance to an element of the
2 intelligence community, and shall be promptly dismissed,
3 if the Attorney General certifies to the district court of
4 the United States in which such action is pending that
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17 (4) in the case of a covered civil action, the as
18 sistance alleged to have been provided by the elec
19 tronic communication service provider was
20 (A) in connection with an intelligence ac
21 tivity involving communications that was
22 (i) authorized by the President dur
23 ing the period beginning on September 11,
24 2001, and ending on January 17, 2007;
25 and
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1 (ii) designed to detect or prevent a
2 terrorist attack, or activities in preparation
3 for a terrorist attack, against the United
4 States; and
5 (B) the subject of a written request or di
6 rective, or a series of written requests or direc
7 tives, from the Attorney General or the head of
8 an element of the intelligence community (or
9 the deputy of such person) to the electronic
10 communication service provider indicating that
11 the activity was
12 (i) authorized by the President; and
13 (ii) determined to be lawful; or
14 (5) the person did not provide the alleged assistance.
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Hereis the text of the bill.
What all that legalese boils down to is that if the BushCo says that what they asked the telcos to do was legal ( according to BushCo ),and was done to protect us ( again, according to BushCo ) that is as far as it goes - no questions asked.
These mother-****ers did this in secret, in the dark, just like the good little cockroaches that they are.
They arranged enough support for the vote to be a forgone conclusion. And two-faced Hoyer is said to be actually voting no, to continue his charade of actually giving a **** about civil liberties.
Surely there are more travesties hidden within this POS, which I intend on uncovering over the weekend.