McCain’s Position On Telecom Immunity

MSNBC.com notes that Presidential candidate John McCain may be altering his position on immunity for telecommunications providers in the warrantless surveillance program. According to a statement by Chuck Fish, one of Senator McCain’s campaign attorneys, “There would need to be hearings, real hearings, to find out what actually happened, what harms actually occurred, rather than some sort of sweeping of things under the rug.That would be absolutely verboten in a McCain administration.” He made the comments at the annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference last week.