Finance, Favors and FISA

You’re reading FireDogLake, so you undoubtedly know that under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) revision passed Wednesday night in the Senate, the telecommunications companies get immunity from prosecution of crimes they may have committed while carrying out a warrantless wiretapping program for the U.S. government. This retroactive immunity means that if AT&T or Verizon hoovered up your email illegally, it just doesn’t matter in the U.S. courts.

Davin Hutchins at the American News Project follows the money trail to find out how telecom dollars influence Congressmen to say what they say and vote the way they do.