{"id":195624,"date":"2008-06-25T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/25\/so-where-is-reid-on-telco-immunity\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T04:07:00","slug":"so-where-is-reid-on-telco-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/25\/so-where-is-reid-on-telco-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"So, Where is  Reid on Telco Immunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many things with Harry Reid, it&#8217;s kind of confusing.  He is a wheels within wheels kind of guy.<\/p>\n<p>Reid is <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/24\/reid-to-co-sponsor-effort-to-strip-retroactive-immunity-from-fisa-bill\/\">co-sponsoring cosponsoring the amendment to strip telco immunity<\/a>, but as this is sure to be filibustered, it not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>He also says that he&#8217;s going to vote against the whole bill.<\/p>\n<p>So at least nominally, Reid is on the side of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/6\/24\/143245\/164\/812\/541267\">Dodd, Feingold, Wyden and Boxer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that all this is far less noble than one might imagine.  I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2008\/06\/25\/about-reids-potential-delay\/\">Emptywheel&#8217;s analysis<\/a>, that his objections are less about the merits of the bill than they are about holding back any approval until the Housing Bill and Iraq Supplemental, which has, &#8220;Webb&#8217;s GI bill and an extension to unemployment benefits&#8221; have passed and have been signed into law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many things with Harry Reid, it&#8217;s kind of confusing. He is a wheels within wheels kind of guy. Reid is co-sponsoring cosponsoring the amendment to strip telco immunity, but as this is sure to be filibustered, it not going to happen. He also says that he&#8217;s going to vote against the whole bill. So &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1067,998,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-communications","category-congress","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}