This controversy is not about intelligence, lost or found. Nor is it, at heart, about any real concern for Telecom liability for breach of privacy in violation of law.
It is solely about the Bush Administration's desire to keep secret its violations of law and the Constitution. Plainly stated, the administration's violation of the law and the Constitution will come out in a civil trial agasint the Telecoms. Immunity for the Telecoms means there will be no civil trial in which such violations will be revealed.
This is why the Bush Administration insists that the PPA cannot be extended unless there is Telecom Immunity.

Posted at February 24, 2008 6:32 PM in response to Admin Officials: Never Mind

This controversy is not about intelligence, lost or found. Nor is it at heart about any real concern about Telecom liability for breach of privacy in violation of law.
It is solely about the Bush Administration's desire to keep secret its violations of law and the Constitution. Plainly stated, the administrations violation of the law and the Constitution will come out in a civil trial agasint the Telecoms. Immunity for the Telecoms means there will be no civil trial in which such violations will be revealed.

Posted at February 24, 2008 6:29 PM in response to Admin Officials: Never Mind