Tomorrow, I will vote for the amendments that strike or amend the provision granting retroactive immunity to telecommunication companies in the FISA Amendments Act. Many of these companies cooperated with the government in good faith, and they deserve some relief, but it should be up to the Courts and not the President or the Congress to decide whether the law was broken.

Granting retroactive immunity to the telecommunication companies creates a dangerous precedent for future Administrations and private actors to violate the law, and then ask forgiveness through an after-the-fact amnesty or a pardon... we are a nation of laws and the President and Attorney General deliberately ignored the law and bypassed the FISA Court for years with their warrantless wiretap program.