The smart way around telecom immunity

As the Senate debates a fix to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act this week, the battles rage fiercest over whether to grant immunity from liability to private telecom companies that assisted the administration with terrorist surveillance (aka domestic eavesdropping). Fans of immunity, which would be retroactive, have staked their position on a claim with which it's hard to disagree. Full Story »

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Seabury Lyon
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by Seabury Lyon - Oct. 1, 2008

Stated another way, the issue here is not so much the protection of state secrets as the abuse of the system by the executive branch. I find the telecom defense unconvincing since they were well aware of available means to verify the government justification for secrecy. In conclusion, however, the authors provide an excellent 3-point solution for future cases, even if they leave this current outrage unresolved.

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