Comments on: Understanding Your Phone Bill: Telecom Immunity Charge

By: Ed Chavez

Ed Chavez — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:56:31 +0000

“Let me make clear, at the outset of this debate, that this is not about domestic surveillance itself. We all recognize the importance of domestic surveillance – in an age of unprecedented threats.

This is about illegal, unwarranted, unchecked domestic surveillance. …

I am here today to say that I will not and cannot support this legislation. It goes against everything I have stood for – everything this body ought to stand for… This is about far more than a few telecoms – it is about contempt for the law, large and small.”

- Senator Chris Dodd

I think that pretty much says it all, eh?

By: Geoffrey A

Geoffrey A — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:55:46 +0000

It amazes me that propagandists are still busy trying to scam people into believing that AMERICAN telecom companies were used to spy on citizens in FOREIGN countries.

If they wanted to spy on foreign citizens then why didn’t they get the help of telecoms from those countries?

Common sense, much, you propagandists?

By: Matt Lohr

Matt Lohr — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:09:01 +0000

It astounds me that Senator Dodd can speak in the same breath about national security and punishing companies who have assisted in foreign surveillance efforts.