Telecom Immunity Issue Derails Spy Law Overhaul

Amid deep and growing divisions among Senate Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) last night abruptly withdrew legislation that would have changed surveillance law and granted the nation’s telecommunications companies retroactive immunity from lawsuits charging they had violated…

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Posted in Politics 18.12.2007 on 09:12.


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