SocraticGadfly: The direct way for Obama to act against telco immunity

June 05, 2008

The direct way for Obama to act against telco immunity

Over at Washington Monthly, guest blogger dday calls on Barack Obama to denounce, or whatever, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes’ “conversion” to supporting including telecom immunity in a renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

(Sidebar: As I blogged earlier, WTF led Reyes to be so fine NOW with telco immunity, when he made himself into a progressive hero this spring?)

Anyway, if the eventual House bill needs any reconciliation with the Senate version, Obama has his chance …

To filibuster.

(Assuming that 41 Dems don’t have enough real patriotism to invoke cloture in the first place.)

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