# Ugh...House Passes new Surveillance Law

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> [@FightinMike](#):
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> The more I read the more I’m starting to love this bill.
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> Numbers:
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> Hours given to the House to debate this bill: 1  
> Hours after its release the bill was voted on: 24
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> Quotes (NY Times):
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> With some AT&T and other telecommunications companies now facing some 40 lawsuits over their reported participation in the wiretapping program, **Republican leaders described this narrow court review on the immunity question as a mere “formality.”**
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> **“The lawsuits will be dismissed,”** Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, the No. 2 Republican in the House, predicted with confidence.
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> The proposal — particularly the immunity provision — represents a major victory for the White House after months of dispute. **“I think the White House got a better deal than they even they had hoped to get,”** said Senator Christopher Bond, the Missouri Republican who led the negotiations.
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> Let’s not forget that the FISA court already found at least part of the wiretapping program to be [illegal](http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/court-ruling-th.html).

The formality they’re talking, and the dismissals they’re talking about are for all the class action lawsuits the telco’s are facing. They are not talking about getting a wiretap warrant being a formaility.

Do you really think AT&T should be sued for millions, if not billions, for doing what the government told them was legal? I mean come on, we’re not talking black and white herding millions of jews to the gas chambers nuremberg trials here.

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