February 29, 2008

FISA News and Updates

The battle against telecom immunity continues in Washington DC, with a fear-mongering press blitz from the Administration and other supporters of immunity for lawbreaking telecoms.

EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl counters some of the many myths delivered by the White House Press Secretary Dana Perino during a recent briefing:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/myth-facts-about-retroactive-immunity-and-attorneys

EFF buying viagra Designer/Activist Hugh D'Andrade documents the "slips and stalls" perpetrated by proponents of immunity, whose yowling arguments for immunizing the telecoms are later contradicted by facts that they must acknowledge:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/republican-slips-and-stalls

And this past week, four former senior level intelligence officials wrote to Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell to challenge recent statements on telecom immunity and its relationship to surveillance and security:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/four-former-intelligence-professionals-write-dni-mcconnell

For the text of the letter from the former intelligence officials to DNI Mike McConnell:

http://www.nsnetwork.org/node/253

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