[Sosfbay-discuss] Bill to Repeal Telecom Immunity

[fred]

Thanks, Brian, for posting this item.

I think the GPSCCC should issue a news release reporting the Green 
Party's alarming concern (at the Oct 7 Meeting) with Obama's carrying 
out a number of Bush's Constitution damning policies.  In doing so, 
Dodd, Leahy, Feingold and Merkley should be condoned for their guts to 
take on the President by sponsoring the "Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act."

Fred

Brian Good wrote:
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>   My Democrat friends completely understand when I tell them that I 
> lost hope in Obama when he voted for telecom immunity after promising 
> he would filibuster.
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> http://dodd.senate.gov/?q=node/5238
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>   Senators Dodd, Leahy, Feingold, and Merkley are sponsoring the 
> Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act.  
> “We best defend America when we also defend its founding principles,” 
> said Dodd. “We make our nation safer when we eliminate the false 
> choice between liberty and security....  Retroactive immunity for 
> warrantless wiretapping [violated] our citizen’s privacy and due 
> process right."
>  
> Said Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, “Last year, I 
> opposed legislation that stripped Americans of their right to seek 
> accountability for the Bush administration’s [illegal warrantless 
> wiretaps].... Restoring Americans’ access to the courts is the first 
> step toward ... accountability."
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> “Immunity ... was unjustified and undermined the rule of law,” 
> Feingold said. “Congress should not have short-circuited the courts’ 
> constitutional role in assessing the legality of the program."
>  
> “Telecommunications companies were ... violating the rights and 
> privacy of millions of Americans,” said Merkley. 
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>   The bill seeks to reverse the mistake of the last Congress and 
> repeal the retroactive immunity provisions. The Senators say the 
> courts, and neither Congress nor the Administration, should determine 
> whether these corporations violated the law and rights of Americans 
> and whether or not they should be held accountable.
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