Featured Worklog

Price Search



PC Apex Sponsor


PC Apex Sponsors



PC Apex RSS Feeds

RSS Feed for PC Apex Reviews & ArticlesRSS Feed for PC Apex PC Modding WorklogsRSS Feed for the PC Apex Daily DisturbanceRSS Feed for the latest PC Apex Site NewsRSS Feed for PC Apex Affiliate and Web NewsRSS Feed for PC Apex Deals and Steals

Go Back   Apex Community Forums // PC Apex Forums // PC Apex RSS News Feeds // Slashdot RSS

Slashdot RSS RSS news feed directly from Slashdot.

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 12-March-08, 08:43 AM   #1 (permalink)
News Hound
Gizmo's Avatar
Default Slashdot // Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying

metalman writes "Wired has a story on a proposal by House Democrats to 'establish a national commission — similar to the 9/11 Commission... to find out — and publish — what exactly the nation's spies were up to during their five-year warrantless, domestic surveillance program.' The draft bill would also preserve the requirement of court orders and remove 'retroactive immunity for telecom companies.' (We've discussed various government wiretaps, phone companies, and privacy violations before.) But it seems unlikely that such an alternative on phone immunity would pass both the House and Senate, let alone survive a Presidential veto."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.




More...
Gizmo is offline     Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Slashdot // Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing Gizmo Slashdot RSS 0 28-January-08 04:50 PM
Slashdot // US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses Gizmo Slashdot RSS 0 27-October-07 10:10 AM
Slashdot // Bloggers Propose Code of Conduct Gizmo Slashdot RSS 0 10-April-07 04:10 AM
Slashdot // Telcos Propose 2-Tier Internet Gizmo Slashdot RSS 0 13-December-05 05:20 PM
Slashdot // Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act Gizmo Slashdot RSS 0 03-November-05 05:02 PM


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:03 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.3.0
Copyright PCApex.com, GameApex.com, ForumApex.com 2001 - 2008
Advertisements

Page generated in 0.11065 seconds with 9 queries