国会半信半疑关于免疫为电话公司在NSA暗中侦察

尽管布什政府的牢固的姿态在对电话公司的准予优惠，国会希望提出问题对确切地再发现什么电话公司提供给政府， 报告Ars Technica。

布什政府请求追溯自免疫为电话公司不管他们的行动的合法。 Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)，议院情报委员会的主席，意欲举行听证会为了发现确切地发现什么这些公司也许已经做了。

“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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