Wiretapping update: The Senate debates FISA

I don't have time to provide much summary, but the U.S. Senate is embroiled in a debate about wiretapping and other domestic surveillance. They passed a stopgap bill that expires in February and there are two key issues:

• Will phone companies that broke the wiretap law at the behest of the Bush administration be given immunity for their illegal activities?
• Will Congress give Bush a de facto censure by stripping his efforts to legalize the warrantless wiretapping after the fact?

Read more on it here.