New class action filed over US warrantless surveillance program

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The lawsuit filed Thursday follows an earlier class-action lawsuit filed by EFF against AT&T in January 2006 over the company's participation in the warrantless surveillance program. The most recent lawsuit is aimed at the US government, reflecting the July amendment to FISA which granted retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies participating in the surveillance program. The amendment was signed into law.

In June, the US House of Representatives passed HR 6304, amending FISA and including the granting of retroactive immunity. The bill also grants the FISA court authority to review a wider range of wiretapping orders, would prohibit the executive branch from overriding the court's authority, and orders the Department of Justice and other agencies to issue a report on the country's use of wiretapping orders.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/09/class-action-lawsuit-filed-over-us.php

[judasdisney]

1. Pelosi & Reid will fight this harder than they ever fought a Republican. Mark my words.

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2. I guess I never really thought about the reaction of Pelosi and

Reid. Infact, when I read this, all I could think of is why our these organizations having to do the work our congress should be doing? I'm still baffled about this whole silence reguarding the spying on the American people thing.

[judasdisney]

3. Trust me. These organizations are Jane Harmon's "Homegrown Terrorists" as far as

Congress is concerned

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4. I'm going to have to google that name. I don't know it.

[judasdisney]

5. Jane Harmon, Orwellian Democrat. HR Bill #1955

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_1955

http://eric-albert.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/01/1135184-the-homegrown-terrorism-prevention-act-a-tutorial-in-orwellian-newspeak