布什寻找免疫为电信企业

布什政府想要力量授予法律豁免掴与保密性衣服为合作与白宫有争议的warrantless窃听的节目的电信公司。当局将有效地关闭许多诉讼被提出反对电信公司被指责帮助的设定节目。

隐晦地措辞的提案将保护涉嫌提供信息、基础设施或者“协助的其他形式”给情报机构在2001年9月11日的任何人，恐怖攻击以后。

它包括意欲的所有被分类的通信活动保护国家免受恐怖主义。

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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