Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T donated $8,359 on average, between January 2005 and March 2008, to 94 House Democrats who switched their stances and voted yes last week on the House's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) overhaul bill.The same companies donated $4,987 on average to those who consistently opposed immunity and voted no, the study finds.This system is little more than legalized bribery.
Let me also say that the telecommunications companies should get no immunity. They rolled over way too easily to have acted in good faith. It would have been extremely easy and completely reasonable to refuse to disclose any confidential information without a court order. They owed that to their customers.
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Please explain to me how ex post facto immunity is not a clear violation of the Constitution?
I haven't really looked at it, but my guess is that the prohibition on ex post facto laws would not apply because this is civil immunity, not criminal immunity.
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