Phone Firms' Bid for Immunity in Wiretaps Gains Ground

The Senate signaled in a key vote yesterday that it supports giving some of the nation's largest telephone companies immunity from dozens of privacy lawsuits related to a federal domestic eavesdropping program initiated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Dan Eggen and Paul Kane

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