Article: Urgent: Bush signs new surveillance bill granting legal immunity to telecom companies

Article: Senate approves legal immunity for telecom firms
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  February 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... White House much of the latitude it wanted and granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped in ... 31 a move to strip away a grant of retroactive legal immunity for the companies. It also rejected two amendments ...

Article: `Remove legal immunity of local councils'
New Straits Times;  February 20, 2006 ;     327 words ... ... Straits Times 02-20-2006 `Remove legal immunity of local councils' Edition: Main ... The Government should remove the legal immunity of local councils from prosecution ... Building Act 1974, which grants full legal immunity to local councils for any wrongdoings ...

Article: GOVT URGED TO THOROUGHLY EVALUATE IBRA'S DEMAND FOR LEGAL ...
ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia);  January 28, 2004 ;     639 words ... ... Restructuring Agency (IBRA)'s demand for legal immunity, National Development Planning Minister ... fraudulent acts that it had asked for legal immunity. Previously, an IBRA official disclosed ... studying the possibility of giving legal immunity to the agency to prevent it from being ...

Article: 'No legal immunity' for Musharraf.
Aljazeera.net;  August 17, 2008 ;     574 words ... ... ruling coaliton was against any deal that would grant him legal immunity. Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the country's foreign minister ... are willing to offer - in particular if they will give him legal immunity and let him stay in the country.'Politics of revenge ...

Article: Senate approves legal immunity for ...
AP Worldstream;  February 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... George W. Bush much of the latitude he wanted and grants legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped in the snooping ... of 31 to 67 a move to strip away a grant of retroactive legal immunity for the companies. It also rejected two amendments that ...

Article: Pinochet Stripped of Legal Immunity
AP Online;  January 11, 2006 ;     650 words ... ... An appeals court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his legal immunity Wednesday, a ruling that paved the way for the former dictator ... dissidents. The courts have repeatedly lifted Pinochet's legal immunity in the past, has the law require people protected by such ...

Article: GOVT NEVER DISCUSSED LEGAL IMMUNITY FOR IBRA ...
ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia);  February 4, 2004 ;     380 words ... ... said the government had never discussed the granting of legal immunity to former officials of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring ... will be dissolved on February 27, 2004. "The question of legal immunity for IBRA officials was never discussed in a cabinet meeting ...