U.S. Senate passes bill to expand government’s spying powers
More anti-freedom news from the US today, and a great reason to use only pre-paid, anonymous phone service, as Global Nomads has alwars recommended.
After more than a year of heated political wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers after giving legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President George W. Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program.
Read the whole story here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/13/america/12cndfisa.php
