To: NormsRevenge; All; SJackson; SandRat; blam; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; Allegra; tobyhill; ...
Back to serious business!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Gotta have that trial lawyer cash for November, don’tcha know.
3 posted on
03/11/2008 3:38:53 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Good! I don’t think the telecoms should be immune from such lawsuits. The government should do it’s own spying, and the telecoms should focus on how to provide me with better service.
4 posted on
03/11/2008 3:40:31 PM PDT by
KoRn
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Absolute nonsense, the companies didn’t just do this “w/o court approval” as the article says, they did it in accordance with the legislation Congress passed. To have the companies sued for cooperating with a government security program is a nasty little bit of backhanded democrat treason.
6 posted on
03/11/2008 3:43:15 PM PDT by
Williams
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wasn’t there a bit of telecom eavesdropping involved in snagged “Hunka-Hunka Burnin’ Love” Spitzer?
7 posted on
03/11/2008 3:45:31 PM PDT by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
But they offered the companies an olive branch: the chance to use classified government documents to defend themselves in court.
After all, the documents are classified for no particular reason in the first place.
The House bill also would create a bipartisan commission, modeled after the 9/11 Commission, to investigate the Bush administration's secret wiretapping program.
That mean they'll follow the "Gorelick rule" when choosing members of the commission?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The best argument against the House Democrats is an emotional one. Focus on how they pander to the trial lawyers and sell their country out for 30 pieces of silver. That is what they do. Everyone would understand that.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Terrorists and sympathizers on the run in Iraq and Afghanistan but making gains in Congress. News at 11...
14 posted on
03/11/2008 4:06:38 PM PDT by
IrishCatholic
(No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
House Democrats Reject Telecom ImmunityLOL, those scumbags know who butters their bread - - the "jackpot justice" trial lawyers!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'll just BET the House Dems are willing to let the Telecom companies use CLASSIFIED documents in court. Anything to get the country's secrets out in the open. I wish GWB had fired all the Clintonistas in early 2001. It has been a tough 7 years fighting them with one hand tied behind his back.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“...maintained their refusal to shield from civil lawsuits...”
How much did this cost the trial lawyers in donations to the dems?
17 posted on
03/11/2008 4:12:09 PM PDT by
Bob J
("For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one is striking at it's root.")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Veto! The traitors don’t deserve to have their “compromise” even looked at.
19 posted on
03/11/2008 4:50:16 PM PDT by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Trial lawyer donations or America’s security. Dems always go against America’s security.
22 posted on
03/11/2008 5:04:18 PM PDT by
Rosemont
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Thanks Ernest. Are the Demwits *kidding* now?
Locked in a standoff with the White House, House Democrats on Tuesday maintained their refusal to shield from civil lawsuits telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on their customers without a secret court's permission. But they offered the companies an olive branch: the chance to use classified government documents to defend themselves in court... The House bill also would create a bipartisan commission, modeled after the 9/11 Commission, to investigate the Bush administration's secret wiretapping program. The legislation drew swift criticism from congressional Republicans and from Attorney General Michael Mukasey and National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, who said it fails to fix problems with the 30-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that Congress is trying to update. They also said any bill that does not provide telecom immunity is unacceptable to the Bush administration.
28 posted on
03/11/2008 11:49:55 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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