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Congress duvidoso sobre o immunity para companhias do telefone em espiar do NSA
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Apesar do stance da empresa de administração de Bush em conceder o immunity às companhias do telefone, as esperanças do Congress levantar a edição outra vez para encontram para fora exatamente o que as companhias do telefone forneceram ao governo, relatórios Ars Technica.
A administração de Bush pediu immunity retroactive para companhias do telefone não obstante o legality de suas ações. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), presidente do comitê da inteligência da casa, pretende prender hearings a fim encontrar para fora para encontrar para fora exatamente o que estas companhias puderam ter feito.
“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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