house passes new survillance bill.

Friday's vote came after House Republicans forced a rare, late-night secret session of Congress on Thursday to discuss the bill. The House on Friday approved the bill that would set rules and regulations for the government's eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails in the United States. This bill faces a veto threat from President Bush. The president's main objection is that the bill does not protect lawsuits the telecommunications companies receives, because they allowed the government to eavesdrop on their customers without a court's permission after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. About 40 lawsuits have been filed against telecommunications companies by people stating the companies violated wiretapping and privacy laws. The lawsuits have been combined and are waiting action before a single federal judge in California. The vote sent the bill to the Senate, which has passed its own version that includes the legal immunity for telecoms companies that Bush is demanding. Without that provision, House Republicans said, the companies won't cooperate with U.S. intelligence.

"Seems like house leaders are more interested in investigating our intelligence professionals than giving them the tools that are needed for them to protect us." -President George W. Bush

This whole eavesdropping on the residents of the U.S seems to be a violation of privacy. America is the land of the free, so were is our freedom? they should find a better way to investigating terrorism. they torture humans, they violate our privacy, whats next for America next action?