Telecom Industry Wins a Round on Eavesdropping

nytimes.com — Telecommunications companies won a skirmish in the Senate on Monday as a bill to protect them from lawsuits for cooperating with the Bush administration?s eavesdropping programs easily overcame a procedural hurdle. By 76 to 10, with Democrats divided, the Senate voted to advance the bill for consideration. Dec 17, 2007 View in Crawl 4