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Re: [privacy] Shocker: Bush Threatens Veto of Eavesdropping Bill
From: rms () computerbytesman com
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:27:36 -0400 (EDT)
Hmm, this situation reminds me a bit of this old movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President's_Analyst Bush is doing the bidding for the TPC..... Richard
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Washington Post (AP). [snip] President Bush said Wednesday that he will not sign a new eavesdropping bill if it does not grant retroactive immunity to U.S. telecommunications companies that helped conduct electronic surveillance without court orders. A proposed bill unveiled by Democrats on Tuesday does not include such a provision. Bush, appearing on the South Lawn as that measure was taken up in two House committees, said the measure is unacceptable for that and other reasons. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR200710100 1047.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHDR+Kq1pz9mNUZTMRAtr0AKC7pRTBS5j9mWwxoviJ3w4xDTWK9wCgwRky ZJ7nrdsrseuBMIR2g1hc2OE= =ip4a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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