Bush Administration Was Afraid It Would Have To Admit Telcos Hel...

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 11/16/2009 - 10:32

With the EFF finally successful in getting the federal gov't to hand over some lobbying documents involved in the process of granting telcos total immunity in lawsuits over warrantless wiretapping, the press is starting to go through the documents.

Wired digs in and finds that the Bush administration was worried it would have to admit that the telcos had actually broken the law in order to get immunity -- but were able to route around that by having...

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