My Way News - Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill
AP reports: "The long fight on Capitol Hill centered on one main question: whether to protect from civil lawsuits any telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on American phone and computer lines without the permission or knowledge of a secret court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The White House had threatened to veto the bill unless it immunized companies such as AT&T Inc. (ATT) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) (VZ) against wiretapping lawsuits."

Comment: So, if Bush threatened to veto the bill if it didn't include immunity for the telcos, can we then assume that this had nothing to do with protecting the American people and everything to do with protecting the telcos?