Feingold & Dodd Promise To Filibuster Any Amendment Seeking To Add Immunity To Underlying FISA Bill

[kpete]

Senate FISA Bill Does Not Include Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms, and That Makes it OK,
According to Dodd
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-11-16 00:08. Congress | Spying
By Tim Tagaris, Chris Dodd for President

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1. Within the last hour, the Senate Judiciary Committee just reported out a FISA bill that DOES NOT include retroactive immunity for the telecom companies that helped the Bush Administration spy on Americans.

2. This means the Judiciary bill moves to the full Senate WITHOUT the dangerous language included.

3. Retroactive immunity will, however, surely be introduced as an amendment to the FISA bill.

4. If needed Senator Dodd will filibuster any amendment seeking to add retroactive immunity to the underlying bill. By filibustering, he will force the opposition to find 60 votes to pass the provision.

more at:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/28751

UPDATE: Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) issued the following statement:

“The FISA legislation reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee today is a distinct improvement over the legislation passed by the Intelligence Committee last month. Though it still falls short in many areas, the bill includes several significant provisions that will better protect the privacy of innocent Americans. I applaud Senator Leahy for the package of changes he put together, and I appreciate my colleagues’ support in passing two additional amendments that I offered to further enhance privacy protections. I hope that, when the full Senate considers this issue, the Majority Leader brings up the Senate Judiciary Committee bill instead of the badly flawed Intelligence Committee alternative.

“There is still much to be done to fix this bill. In addition, the issue of retroactive immunity for companies that allegedly participated in the President’s warrantless wiretapping program will be fought out on the floor. I will continue to strongly oppose retroactive immunity when the full Senate considers this legislation.

“As a member of both the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees I have been fighting for months to pass a strong FISA bill that adequately protects the privacy of Americans who are not suspected of having done anything wrong. I will oppose and filibuster any bill on the Senate floor that fails this test or contains retroactive immunity.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/15/judiciary-committee-strips-telecom-immunity-from-fisa-bill/

[VP505]

1. Sure hope they

has some Senators that will back them up as it looks like there will be an effort to work against them to get a version including amnesty through.

[kelligesq]

2. Dodd or Feingold should make a motion:those who own ATT stock, recuse themselves from vote

that should take care of quite a few republicans....but dems too.

[liberal N proud]

3. PROMISE?

I hope they don't break their promise.

[southern_belle]

4. k & r