布什尋找免疫為電信企業

布什政府想要力量授予法律豁免摑與保密性衣服為合作與白宮有爭議的warrantless竊聽的節目的電信公司。當局將有效地關閉許多訴訟被提出反對電信公司被指責幫助的設定節目。

隱晦地措辭的提案將保護涉嫌提供信息、基礎設施或者「協助的其他形式」給情報機構在2001年9月11日的任何人，恐怖攻擊以後。

它包括意欲的所有被分類的通信活動保護國家免受恐怖主義。

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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