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Barack Obama to support any potential Filibuster on telecoms immunity?

October 27, 2007 on 11:55 pm | No Comments
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Tags: american politics, at&t, barack obama, filibuster, immunity, law, politics, presidential election, senate, telecoms

Far be it from me to get involved in the putrid mire that is U.S. politics, but I thought this was an interesting development.For background, the Bush administration is currently attempting to introduce legislation granting retrospective immunity from prosecution to all telecoms companies involved in the illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens.

Obama will support filibuster of any bill granting telecom immunity:
The so-called “Austin Mayor” says:

Sen. Barack Obama will back a filibuster of any Senate FISA legislation containing telecom immunity, his campaign has just told Election Central. The Obama campaign has just sent over the following statement from spokesman Bill Burton: “To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.”Link 

(Via BoingBoing.)