There’s been plenty of chatter on the Internets about the Democrats caving and giving Pres. George W. Bush all he wants (and more) to secretly spy on us, and grant giant telecom companies immunity ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Thursday condemned Intelligence Committee Democrats for brokering a deal with the White House that would provide retroactive immunity for ...

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is drafting a compromise to resolve the thorny issue of whether to provide retroactive liability protections for the phone companies that allegedly ...

WASHINGTON--Democratic and Republican senators on Thursday did little to resolve the question of whether to shield telephone and Internet companies from lawsuits alleging they illegally cooperated ...

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the state's senior Democrat and the chairman of that committee, supported an amendment that would have stripped immunity, but through a procedural move the final version of ...

MONTPELIER – A new surveillance bill that gives immunity to telephone companies accused of illegally releasing customer data lets the White House "off the hook" for running an unlawful program, U.S.

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the state's senior Democrat and the chairman of that committee, supported an amendment that would have stripped immunity, but through a procedural move the final version of ...

WASHINGTON--Despite demands from President Bush to shield telephone and Internet companies from surveillance-related lawsuits, key U.S. senators are reluctant to offer legal immunity. But they may ...

In a blow to the Bush administration, the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Democrat and Republican expressed reluctance yesterday to granting blanket immunity to telecommunications carriers sued for ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush won a test vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday on his demand that any telephone company that participated in his warrantless domestic spying program ...