S.2248
February 13, 2008 09:02 AM (9 months ago) | Overall Score: 6.7 | Replies: 0

The very concept of retroactive guilt or innocence or liability or immunity is to utterly foreign to our system of law that I simply can't believe that it's being given serious consideration...and in fact it appears to be about to become law. My personal theory about this is that the widespread spying being done without warrants or supervision is being used to gather enough dirt on the members of Congress that most of them can be sufficiently blackmailed or extorted to go along with pretty much whatever is demanded of them. As far as the telecoms, they've gotten some pretty sweet deals from the last couple of administrations (Democrat and Republican), so they have a pretty strong incentive to play ball, especially when they're told that, by definition, anything and everything they do is, if not legal, at least not something for which they can be prosecuted or sued. Why would anyone need retroactive immunity from anything unless they were doing something wrong, and knew only too well that they were doing something wrong?