Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA

Senators Say White House Cut Deal With Panel on FISA: "Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the ranking Republican, said any such agreement would be 'unacceptable,' signaling that legislation granting immunity to certain telecom carriers could run into trouble. Leahy and Specter demanded that the documents, which were provided only to the Intelligence Committee, be turned over to the Judiciary Committee as well."

These kind of back room deals are what got us into this whole unconstitutional mess in the first place. The white house ignores subpoenas for documents, only to show some of the documents, as long as they get something in return...