The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, ordinarily the source of quality thinking, has produced an embarrassingly bad paper called Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Telecommunications Carriers Deserve Immunity for facilitating illegal wiretapping and surveillance.
Here’s a sampling of the kind of reasoning that pegged my b.s. detector:
[I]n its legislation to overhaul the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Congress is poised to condone lawsuits against telecommunications carriers for complying with what they thought was a legal information-sharing program that was approved by the highest levels of government.
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