Yesterday I wrote a diary about telecom immunity and the suggestion that the telecoms might not help us again if they think they're going to be sued. This is all just insinuated by people in the Bush administration like Mike McConnell. It's always in the form of a vague suggestion, so in yesterday's diary I wrote this:
with all the uncertainty about whether or not the telecoms will help us in the next terrorist attack I propose an extremely radical idea: let's ask them, and settle this thing once and for all. Let's ask the telecoms whether or not they intend to let thousands of us die in the next terrorist attack because they don't want to get sued. And let them look the American people in the eye when they give their answer. Our very lives are at stake here. I'd call that a Need To Know situation, wouldn't you?
The more I wondered why they didn't just ask the telecoms, the more I started to wonder if they already had.