Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $33,677
41%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 41%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: coinoperatedcongress

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Government ordered to release telecommunications lobbying records

    11/28/2007 12:40:17 PM PST · by SmithL · 6 replies · 101+ views
    AP via SFGate ^ | 11/28/7 | KIM CURTIS, Associated Press Writer
    San Francisco (AP) -- An electronic privacy group challenging President Bush's domestic spying program scored a minor victory after a judge ordered the federal government to release information about lobbying efforts by telecommunications companies to protect them from prosecution. The Electronic Frontier Foundation in January 2006 filed a class-action suit against AT&T Inc., accusing the company of illegally making communications on its networks available to the National Security Agency without warrants. Congress is now considering changing the law to grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that would protect them from such court challenges. "Any attempt for immunity is aimed at...