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President Bush signed a surveillance-reform bill that the Democrat-controlled Congress, after a shamefully acrimonious three-year onslaught, passed overwhelmingly.(George W. Bush)(Brief article)
President Bush signed a surveillance-reform bill that the Democrat-controlled Congress, after a shamefully acrimonious three-year onslaught, passed overwhelmingly. The overhaul streamlines the process for court approval of wiretapping (and other eavesdropping) designed by the outdated 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). It confers immunity from civil lawsuits on telecommunications companies that assisted the administration's post-9/11 surveillance program, which thwarted further terrorist attacks through warrantless monitoring of suspected international terrorist communications. That immunity will keep trial lawyers ...
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