Posts tagged with 'Immunity'

Blackwater Immunity

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, OCTOBER 31 2007 11:40 AM | PERMALINK

Oh, Blackwater. The FedEx of the National Security Apparatus. Immune from punishment. Immune from responsibility. And running with Mitt Romney. Just warms the cockles of your heart, doesn't it? The way this works: our government can take out their leaders as criminals (Saddam) but our criminals are protected by our government leaders when in Iraq. If Blackwater were engaging in this kind of behavior at home, we'd be brandishing balls and chains. There, we're passing Get Out of Jail Free cards....
Blackwater guards offered immunity by investigators without the authority to do so

POSTED BY KRISTIN LINDER, OCTOBER 30 2007 08:18 AM | PERMALINK

In a moment of rash stupidity, State Department investigators are reported to have offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity.

The State Department investigators from the agency’s investigative arm, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, offered the immunity grants even though they did not have the authority to do so, the officials said. Prosecutors at the Justice Department, who do have such authority, had no advance knowledge of the arrangement, they added. NYTimes

It seems the level...
Dodd Announces He Will Delay Vote on FISA Until Immunity for Telecoms is Removed.

POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, OCTOBER 23 2007 08:52 PM | PERMALINK

Senator Chris Dodd discusses his opposition to telecom immunity on October 20, 2007
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Senator Chris Dodd announced today that he will place a hold on a bill to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) if the Senate Judiciary Committee does not remove language granting retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies who turned over customer records to the Bush administration without a court order.

Speaking to the press in Iowa, Dodd called the Bush...