Major Technical Difficulties

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/opinion/03wed1.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=major%20technical%20difficulties&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:26 AM
Subject: re: Major Technical Difficulties
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   While the 2008 amendment to the FISA statute did give "retroactive legal cover to more than five years of the [Bush] administration's illegal spying", that immunity is from civil suits only.    Attorney General Holder still has the power and the responsibility to prosecute these crimes.  Until our Department of Justice takes this responsibility seriously, Americans would be foolish to give the FBI any more tools to spy on us. Rather, until the telecoms are prosecuted for their known crimes, Americans will seek ever more ways to evade the FBI's criminal intrusions.

Barry Levine