House Passes Bill with No Immunity for Phone Companies | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Posted by Tim Jones

Wow. This morning, the House stood up for our rights and passed a FISA reform bill with no retroactive immunity for phone companies! This is a flat-out rejection of the bill passed by the Senate last month, which would have let phone companies off the hook for illegally delivering innocent Americans' emails and phone calls to the government.

This is an incredible victory. House members opposed to immunity were confronted with a veto threat, a massive lobbying effort, a deceptive fear-mongering ad campaign and bizzare last-minute scare tactics. Despite it all, they listened to their constituents and stood strong.