Friday, October 19, 2007

Democratic Lawmaker Pushing Immunity Is Newly Flush With Telco Cash

By Ryan Singel

Threatlevel_rockefeller_200x_3 Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) is reportedly steering the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee to give retroactive immunity to telecoms that helped the government secretly spy on Americans.

He has also recently benefited from some interesting political contributions.


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Read the rest at Wired.