When the Senate voted this week to pass retroactive immunity to telecoms that participated in the President's illegal spying program, newspaper editorial boards from New York to Memphis to San Francisco repeated a cry of outrage that has been building for months. And when the House subsequently refused to...

Today, in a striking development, Democratic House Leadership has been announcing loud and clear that they don't intend to let Bush bully them into passing the Senate's draconian surveillance bill.
Ever since the Senate passed its bill on Tuesday, Bush has been attempting to railroad the bill...

SFGate's Mark Fiore has blown a hole through the middle of arguments for telecom immunity. His latest cartoon featuring "Snuggly, the Security Bear" is more eloquent than any newspaper editorial could ever be:

We've long been concerned about the human rights risks of printer tracking dots for anyone who publishes printed works with modern technology. Tracking dots are the secret marks that many popular color laser printers and photocopiers scatter across every document they touch. The marks, almost invisible to the eye,...

Today, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino admitted that the defendants in the lawsuits against telecommunications carriers "certainly helped us," marking the first time the White House has admitted that the particular companies alleged to have participated in the wiretapping did indeed participate.
Since we first filed suit...

Since late last week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has been circulating a comically lame political advertisement around Capitol Hill. Since the ad isn't actually running on TV anywhere, the message is clearly to members of Congress and their staff: "If you don't do as Bush says on the...