The Dems are showing some backbone and some canniness, in the House at least, with regard to the Protect AT&T Act currently slushing around congress.
The question of retroactive amnesty has always been a straw-man, it is really retroactive immunity for this law breaking administration who's wreckless abandonment of updated FISA laws forced the Telco's, perhaps unwittingly, to break the law. However, QWest's legal reading of the administrations requests sets a precedent, they deemed the requested actions illegal, so why did AT&T, Verizon and Sprints legal departments come to a different conclusion? They probably didn't but were promised, probably by Cheney, that some kind of immunity deal could be worked out later.
(h/t) Daily Kos
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