Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying

metalman writes "Wired has a story on a proposal by House Democrats to 'establish a national commission — similar to the 9/11 Commission... to find out — and publish — what exactly the nation's spies were up to during their five-year warrantless, domestic surveillance program.' The draft bill would also preserve the requirement of court orders and remove 'retroactive immunity for telecom companies.' (We've discussed various government wiretaps, phone companies, and privacy violations before.) But it seems unlikely that such an alternative on phone immunity would pass both the House and Senate, let alone survive a Presidential veto."

Re:The Sooner We Clean Out Bush's Closets, The Bet

[Anonymous Coward]

Bush & Co. have been doing all kinds of rapacious acts - Dubya himself, helped by the Secret Service tried to break into my house last week to steal my children so he and Dick can sell them to white slave traders so they can stay rich. When I tried to report this to my local police, they refused to take a report; said it didn't happen.