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<\/a>Michael Roston, Raw Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House Intelligence Committee has announced that it will investigate the cooperation of telephone companies with the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping activities.<\/p>\n

“One of [Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell’s] proposals is to grant immunity to individuals who and companies that facilitated electronic surveillance activities that were part of the NSA surveillance program disclosed by the President in December 2005,” said Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in a press release sent to RAW STORY<\/a>. “Before granting immunity for any activities, it will be important to review what those activities were, what was the legal basis for those activities, and what would be the impact of a grant of immunity.”<\/p>\n

(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Roston, Raw Story The House Intelligence Committee has announced that it will investigate the cooperation of telephone companies with the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping activities. “One of [Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell’s] proposals is to grant immunity to individuals who and companies that facilitated electronic surveillance activities that were part of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"\nHouse Dems to probe phone company role in NSA wiretaps • Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen's impeach strategy. 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