With a poll finding that "59 percent of voters reject amnesty for phone companies that may have violated the law by selling customers' private information to the government," Jonathan Turley writes that "If the Democrats allow this immunity bill to go through, it will be the final proof that civil liberties ranks somewhere below soybean subsidies in their priorities."
Despite an intense lobbying effort from such privacy groups, the Senate sealed an expected deal this week with President Bush to grant major telecommunications companies -- including Verizon, Comcast and AT&T -- immunity from prosecution for their role in the President's warrantless eavesdropping program if they can "demonstrate to a court that they acted pursuant to a legal directive in helping the government with surveillance in the United States."
Keith Olbermann comments: Answer your phone with %$# Bush.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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