Media Spotlight II

Supreme Court rejects wiretap suit (National)

I don't know how this story is not making the front pages of all of our newspapers. This should be one of the most important issues for American voters is making sure that our civil rights are not being violated. If we let the president get away with ignoring laws and spying on the American people without a warrant things will not get better they will continue to get worse. We will only see more executive power violations and our rights will continue to deteriorate.

The companies that have let the president tap into their customers privacy should not receive immunity because they knew they were breaking the law and they knew the extent to which they were breaking it.

As Keith Olbermann pointed out on “Countdown” if the things you asked these companies to do were perfectly legal then there would be no need to ask for immunity for them in this bill. The president just wants to make sure the next time he decides he is going to break another law or violate our rights again that the same company's will help him to do so in the future.