If we want to find out...
... exactly what happened -- because I agree that the first responsibility lies with the White House -- then granting retroactive legal immunity to the telecoms will make that nearly impossible. If they have no legal liability and they're already "innocent," there's little that Congress or the courts can then do to coerce the details of the warrantless wiretapping program from them. We have no guarantee that AT&T et al. will provide details voluntarily. And we already know the White House won't be offering that info. So stopping Congress from letting the phone companies preemptively off the hook is a critical step in full accountability for whatever the administration did.
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