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There is nothing in this bill that requires that information be made public, but only that Congress is provided the information on a quarterly basis (and it can be in closed session) and FISA is informed prior to any surveillance action (this does not give FISA the power to stop the surveillance but requires the Exec to submit the formal request in a timely manner after the fact).
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This is what you wrote in the OP:
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and (Bush will never go for this)
* requires the Justice Department to reveal the details of all electronic surveillance conducted without court orders since 9/11.
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The provision regarding the telcomms is a safeguard so that those companies do not roll over at every request by the Exec......and it currently does not apply to the future where the telcomms would still have immunity (a compromise by the Dems), it only applies retroactively for their past potentially illegal actions, again between 2003 and 2006 when the Congress and the courts were left in the dark.
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I still don't see how this will serve anyone other than trial lawyers.
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