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Immunité de recherches de Bush pour des sociétés de telecom
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L'administration de Bush veut la puissance d'accorder l'immunité légale aux compagnies de télécommunications qui sont giflées avec des costumes d'intimité pour cooperating avec le programme de écoute clandestine warrantless controversé de la Maison Blanche. L'autorité arrêterait efficacement des douzaines de procès classés contre des compagnies de télécommunications accusées d'aider établi le programme.
La proposition vaguement exprimée protégerait toute personne qui a fourni prétendument l'information, l'infrastructure ou « n'importe quelle autre forme d'aide » aux agences d'intelligence après le 11 septembre 2001, attaques de terreur.
Il couvre n'importe quelle activité classifiée de communications prévue pour protéger le pays contre le terrorisme.
Republicans say immunity is necessary to protect the companies that responded to legal presidential orders to thwart terrorists in the years after 9/11. Yet some Democrats fear the administration’s proposal would do much more than advertised, potentially protecting anyone who gave broad categories of aid to the government as part of a spy programme that monitors communications.
Because the administration does not want to identify which companies participated in the operations, it is asking Congress to let the attorney-general intervene on behalf of any person or company accused of participating in the surveillance work, whether or not they actually did, two senior justice department officials said.
More than a dozen government officials interviewed for this story spoke on condition they not be identified because sensitive negotiations with Congress are ongoing.
One of the officials said the defendants in suits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union — Verizon and AT&T — would be the key beneficiaries of the proposed legislation.
Both companies are a central part of the US communications grid, running networks that transmit both telephone calls and emails. (AP)
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