Charlie Gonzalez (D-TX) - Should the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) include immunity for telecom companies?

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Charlie Gonzalez (D-TX) The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) should not include immunity for telecom companies. Granting blanket immunity excuses corporations from fulfilling their responsibility to ensure that information under their control is not obtained by the government in an inappropriate and excessive manner

Evidence approved (8/13/2008 9:46:47 PM)

Granting blanket immunity excuses corporations from fulfilling their responsibility to ensure that information under their control is not obtained by the government in an inappropriate and excessive manner

From Gonzalez's Website:

The amended version also rejects the President's plan to provide blanket immunity to telecommunications companies who allegedly assisted in the Bush Administration's warrantless surveillance program.

"Granting blanket immunity excuses corporations from fulfilling their responsibility to ensure that information under their control is not obtained by the government in an inappropriate and excessive manner. Relieving corporations of this duty invites the wholesale access of all information in their possession by the government even if the government's request is unreasonable and outside established legal guidelines," said Gonzalez.