FISA Debate Goes Beyond Partisan Rhetoric

By Ed Black
Special to Roll Call

March 10, 2008, 3:14 p.m.

The current controversy surrounding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has dominated the news, and rightly so. The renewal of FISA and its most controversial provision, retroactive immunity for the telecommunications companies that cooperated with the government on wireless surveillance activities, will impact every American — and some of the most important industries at the center of our economic growth.

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