NEWS: Cheney calls for permanent warrantless wiretapping
Cheney calls for permanent warrantless wiretapping
Vice President Cheney called on Congress today to permanently extend the Protect America Act as the White House launched a drive to secure the tools it says are needed to fight a continuing terrorist threat beyond the law’s Feb. 1 expiration.
In a speech to a sympathetic audience at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington-based think tank, Cheney also said the law must include immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that assisted the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance efforts after Sept. 11, 2001. [complete article]
Posted: January 23rd, 2008 under Bush Administration, War on Terrorism, civil liberties .
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