George Bush Demands Immunity For TeleComs, says “I gotta protect my buddies. Heh heh.”

George W. Bush is not as stupid as he often looks, sounds, or seems to be. If he was, he wouldn’t be pushing Congress to pass a bill retroactively giving immunity to the telecommunication companies that illegally wiretapped US citizens for the president’s illegal KGB civilian spying program.

An initial act, allowing warrantless tapping of phone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists, expired on 17 February but did not grant immunity.

Lawsuits have been filed against some of the firms which took part.

They are accused of violation of privacy.

He told the White House on Tuesday “abusive” lawsuits against telecoms firms would “aid our enemies” by teaching them how to duck surveillance.

He went on to say that when he said enemies, he meant the fake ones in his phony war on an abstract concept commonly referred to as the “War on Terror”. He clarified that he did not mean the country’s true enemy, which is to say, the Bush Administration.

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