For Goodness Sake, ProPublica
A Newshour segment on nonprofit media led me to the ProPublica site. I hope critical mass explodes in three years.
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. We strive to foster change through exposing exploitation of the weak by the strong and the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.
An example of the zine's analysis on the recent FISA telecoms immunity debate:
Critics say the compromise essentially guarantees immunity to the companies, because the companies received such written assurances. Earlier this year, the Senate intelligence committee declared in a report that lawmakers and staff had examined the classified written communications between the executive branch and the telecoms who'd participated in the program. And all those letters «stated that the activities had been authorized by the President» and all said that the program was lawful.
«The only question the court has the power to review is a question that we already know the answer to,» says Kevin Bankstrom, a senior attorney with the Electronic Freedom Foundation and one of the lead lawyers in a suit against AT&T for its alleged participation in the program. «Allowing courts to review the question of immunity is meaningless when the same legislation essentially requires the court to grant immunity,» Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) said this afternoon. In a statement this morning, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) says he opposes the bill and complains that it «would dismiss ongoing cases against the telecommunication carriers that participated in that program without allowing a judicial review of the legality of the program.»
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