Phone companies likely to get immunity for wiretapping

For secretly facilitating the Bush administration's mass warrantless wiretapping programme, as long as they were paid, the phone companies look likely to be given immunity from prosecution.

A White House spokesman is bleating about having had 6 months to get it done and not having done it yet and by implication being soft on the terrorists; and the Democrats are running scared in an election year of being accused of supporting terrorists... it's a mad world.