Senate panel to weigh telecom eavesdropping immunity

The US Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to decide this week if a bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will grant immunity from prosecution to telecommunications companies that assisted in government eavesdropping between 2001 and 2007. The bill would replace the Protect America Act 2007 (PAA), legislation passed in August that temporarily gave the executive branch expanded surveillance authority while Congress worked on long-term legislation to “modernize” FISA.

Senate panel to weigh telecom eavesdropping immunity jurist.law.pitt.edu Mon, Nov 12, 2007