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Originally Posted by host
If there are any "Fisa reform, telecomm immunity" advocates out there, why would you trust this president and his administration with even more, checks and balances "proof", i.e. unaccountable authority, or the telecomms that broke the existing law, cooperating with government "requests" without the paper work legally required to do so, before they cooperated in giving up our private records and communications?
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The short answer is national security. Reasonable people don't want the records subject to discovery in open trial for trial attorneys to go on "fishing expeditions".
If specific people came forward with real damage claims I would support their actions to be indemnified for their damages and to receive punitive damages to the degree their was gross negligence or wanton violations of the law. I have not seen this and don't support subjecting telephone companies to millions of dollars spent defending pointless court cases.