On Jan 14, 2:26*am, "DGDevin" wrote:
wrote in messagenews:ud9vi6ps7c8sbud2vmddsmpc4t4n5589ui@4ax .com...

So if it never happened, why did the Bush administration get Congress to
pass legislation immunizing the telecom companies against being sued for
cooperating with the government's tapping program, hmmmm? *This was widely
covered in the news, or do you avoid the news because it's all lib crap?
So they wouldn't have to bother with expensive suits from people with more
money than brains.

Oh, I see, like Ford pardoning Nixon, not because Nixon had broken any laws,
but just to avoid having to mess around in court for years. *But not because
he was guilty of anything. *Sure.

Unbelievable nonsense on an issue that has zero bearing. Everyone
within the
sound of my voice knows that when Nixon accepted the pardon, he was,
in essence,
admitting that the broke laws. He was perfectly free to reject it
and stand trial, had
he chosen to do so. And the pardon did allow the country to move
on, instead of
remaining occupied with a trial that could have lasted years.....

Since you want to bring up pardons, what about the pardon by Clinton
of Marc Rich?
He was on the FBI most wanted list, living in Switzerland, wanted for
tax evasion,
among other crimes. During the Jimmy Carter days of loony energy
policy, he
decided to tax "old" oil at rates far higher than "new" oil. Marc
Rich figured out
how to put old oil in one end of a pipe, pump it around, and when it
came out the
other end, it was new oil. When caught, he fled the country. Now,
thanks to his
ex-wife greasing the works with lots of money and contributions to the
Clinton
library, he's pardoned. How does that pardon sit with you?

And back to your original claim, pointing out that Congress passed a
law giving
imunity to ISPs for any help they give in turning over information
does zippo to
prove your claim that the USA is actively listening in on all domestic
calls.

As KRW pointed out, it was done so that they would be shielded from
frivoulous
lawsuits, (think ACLU), on behalf of some skunk who's bomb making was
interrupted after he came onto the FBIs radar map and they got further
info
from the ISP. You have a problem with that?