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Le congrès douteux au sujet de l'immunité pour des compagnies de téléphone dans remarquer de NSA
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En dépit de la position ferme d'administration de Bush sur accorder l'immunité contre des compagnies de téléphone, les espoirs du congrès de soulever la question encore à découvrent exactement ce que les compagnies de téléphone ont fourni au gouvernement, rapports Ars Technica.
L'administration de Bush a demandé l'immunité rétroactive pour des compagnies de téléphone indépendamment de la légalité de leurs actions. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), le Président du Comité d'intelligence de Chambre, prévoit pour tenir des auditions afin de découvrir pour découvrir exactement ce que ces compagnies pourraient avoir fait.
“Before granting immunity for any activities, it will be important to review what those activities were, what was the legal basis for those activities, and what would be the impact of a grant of immunity,” Reyes said in a statement.
Under consideration are whether the NSA’s surveillance program was legal and if the laws need to be changed to allow intelligence agencies to better track terrorist communications.
Reyes says that he “will not prejudge the outcome of these hearings,” but the fact that he has serious questions about the retroactive immunity suggests that he won’t be easily persuaded to sign off on it. That’s good news for organizations like the EFF, which is embroiled in a lawsuit with AT&T over the issue. Even if the administration doesn’t get its way in Congress, it will continue to push for the courts to throw out such cases on the grounds that they will expose state secrets. Thus far, though, the combined case against the telephone companies remains alive.
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