What Does The Stimulus Package Have To Do With Telecom Immunity? — by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at Care2 Election Blog)
Why is the Bush administration trying to tie the economic stimulus package to giving the telecoms immunity and the surveillance program?
This makes no sense at all to me. Actually, it makes total sense, if you are an administration that wants to hold the American people hostage. [Here are some checks for all of you financially struggling people…But, we are only going to give them to you if your representatives sign a bill to let us spy on you.] What the…what??? This is the kind of thing that makes people feel that their government isn’t looking out for them, and their elected officials can’t be trusted. This is the kind of thing that should not happen.
