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Yup...........INCLUDING Legal Protection for Phone
Companies.........Ain't That A HOOT?..........
"Senate Passes Bill to Expand U.S. Spying Powers
El Tiempo de la Nueva York
February 12, 2008
WASHINGTON -- After more than a year of heated political wrangling, the
Senate handed the White House a major victory Tuesday by voting to
broaden the government's spy powers after giving legal protection to
phone companies that cooperated in President Bush's warrantless
eavesdropping program.
The Senate rejected a series of amendments that would have restricted
the government's surveillance powers and eliminated immunity for the
phone carriers, and it voted in convincing fashion -- 69 to 29 -- to end
debate and bring the issue to a final vote. That vote on the overall
bill was an almost identical 68 to 29. "
Companies.........Ain't That A HOOT?..........
"Senate Passes Bill to Expand U.S. Spying Powers
El Tiempo de la Nueva York
February 12, 2008
WASHINGTON -- After more than a year of heated political wrangling, the
Senate handed the White House a major victory Tuesday by voting to
broaden the government's spy powers after giving legal protection to
phone companies that cooperated in President Bush's warrantless
eavesdropping program.
The Senate rejected a series of amendments that would have restricted
the government's surveillance powers and eliminated immunity for the
phone carriers, and it voted in convincing fashion -- 69 to 29 -- to end
debate and bring the issue to a final vote. That vote on the overall
bill was an almost identical 68 to 29. "
