Dodd Filibuster Threat Wins; Spying Bill Postponed to Next Year - Wired.com

Have been busy today, so am running behind on this story. Congratulations to Senator Dodd for at least stopping the bad bill until after the holidays. This bill would make allow telecoms who violated your rights and the law to escape justice. So the lesson here is if you have lots of money and lots of influence, you can buy both political parties, but not Senator Dodd. Thanks Senator for standing tall.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007...

Connecticut senator Christopher Dodd's threatened filibuster of a bill giving immunity to telecoms that helped the government spy on Americans unexpectedly carried the day Monday, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to postpone the vote on the measure until after the winter break. The announcement was an unexpected victory for civil liberties groups, whose anti-immunity fortunes looked grim this morning as the Senate looked primed to pass an expansive spying bill that would free telecoms like AT&T and Verizon from privacy lawsuits.

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