Monday, July 14, 2008

Bipartisan Support for New FISA, Nets See 'Controversy' & 'Spying'

Despite the overwhelming bipartisan majorities in the Senate and House which agreed to a new Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which the President will happily sign, NBC and ABC painted it as “controversial” based on how the bill blocks lawsuits against telecommunications companies which cooperated with the President after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Though the program tracked communication between suspected terrorists overseas and people within the United States, not all of them Americans, NBC's Brian Williams delivered a more nefarious picture of firms that had “helped to spy on Americans”...

[what bias?]

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