Congress doubtful about immunity for phone companies in NSA spying國會質疑免疫力電話公司，在國家安全局的間諜
Despite the Bush administration’s firm stance on granting immunity to telephone companies, Congress hopes to raise the issue again to find out exactly what the phone companies provided to the government,儘管布什政府的堅定立場，就給予豁免權，向電話公司，國會希望提出這個問題，再次以找出究竟電話公司提供給政府的， reports Ars Technica. 報告人工魚礁technica 。
The Bush administration has asked for retroactive immunity for telephone companies regardless of the legality of their actions.布什政府已要求溯及既往免疫為電話公司，不論他們的合法性行動。 Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, intends to hold hearings in order to find out find out exactly what these companies might have done.為主雷耶斯（四-的TX ） ，主席的眾議院情報委員會打算舉行聽證會，以便找出了解清楚這些公司可能就不會這樣做了。
“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. "之前，給予豁免權，任何活動，這將是重要的是審查這些活動，又是什麼法律依據，為這些活動，並會產生什麼影響，補助金的免疫力， "雷耶斯在一項聲明中說。
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.正在審議是否美國國家安全局的監視計劃是合法的，如果法律需要修改，以允許情報機構，以更好地追踪恐怖分子通信。
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.雷耶斯說，他"不會影響最終的結果，這些聽證會" ，但事實證明他有嚴重的問題，關於溯及既往免疫表明他不會輕易地被說服簽署它。 That’s good news for organizations like the EFF, which is embroiled in a lawsuit with AT&T over the issue.這是一個好消息，這樣的組織作用，這是陷入一場官司與AT ＆ T這個問題。 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.即使政府不得到其方式在國會，將繼續推動由法庭來拋出這樣的情況下，理由是他們將揭露國家機密。 Thus far, though, the combined case against the telephone companies remains alive.因此，到目前為止，雖然，合併案對電話公司仍然活著。
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