Congress votes to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, legalize warrantless eavesdropping

Remember when Ford pardoned Nixon? The Senate, including Barack Obama, just voted to cover up the commission of dozens of felonies by the Bush administration as well as expand the Executive’s legal ability to eavesdrop on American citizens without a warrant. This is in violation of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. This is how one secures political office, and how one stays there.

The telecom companies needed this legislation to protect them as accomplices in these crimes, and they got it. It’s obvious who Congress answers to, and it sure isn’t their constituents.