Congress Moves Toward Passage of Domestic Spy Bill
"The US House of Representatives and two different Senate committees have approved competing versions of a bill that would modify a law governing spying on domestic and international communications.All versions of the bill would expand government-spying powers by modifying the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires a warrant for electronic surveillance of US citizens. The bills differ on whether or not to grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the Bush administration's National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program.
Congressional Democrats are split on whether or not to include the immunity provision, while the administration has pledged to veto any bill that does not include it." Download an analysis of this bill by Joe Kay, in PDF format.
