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Thanks to a new congressional ruling, the president has essentially been given the ability to give all of the telcom companies involved in various wiretapping cases a full pardon. The best part of this is that the president doesn’t have to deal with all of the publicity that generally goes along with issuing a pardon, because this was done entirely through congress.
The ruling stipulates that each of these telcom companies will be absolved of any guilt or responsibility in their respective cases, because the president told them that it was legal for them to allow the federal government to tap their lines. This has essentially set the precedent that a company can do literally anything, as long as the president tells them that it’s OK by him.
Oh, and don’t forget the other effect of this new bill. Thanks to this ruling, the federal government will also be allowed to resume spying on our nation’s citizens, needing no warrants or court orders.

Intelligence agencies will be able to demand various communications providers hand over communications without court approval and without naming the target, so long as they claim that the communications are “reasonably believed to involve a non-American who is outside the country.” Seems rather wide open for abuse doesn’t it? 

The full article can be found here