Don't Worry. Senate says ATT is Defending Our Freedom by Spying on us. Patriots basically.

So.  Lincoln (D-AR) and Pryor (D-AR) both voted to give telecom companies immunity from civil litigation for breach of contract and other complaints related to illegal domestic wiretaps. (Clinton (D-NY) didn't vote). I pulled this up from a post from mcjoan at DailyKos a few days back, in case you want this issue summed up simply.

• "The telcos are not patriotic heroes. They broke the law. And when they stopped being paid for it, they stopped being "patriotic." They don't deserve protection.
• If domestic spying was really so critical to the nation's security, the government would have kept paying for it.
• The administration is hellbent on protecting the evidence of their illegal spying on American citizens by not allowing lawsuits against the telcos that helped them.
• The administration is still hellbent on spying on American citizens with or without cause."

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American citizens - 0, Patriotic security theater - 1