Chris Dodd on telecom immunity

Chris Dodd has impressed me lately by showing real leadership opposing retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that enabled the President's assault on the Constitution by illegaly providing personal information on their customers without judicial authorization. He's now got a page of his website where you can track the latest developments on this issue, and a widget for keeping track of where the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee stand:



When Dodd announced he was running, I was skeptical. But it's nice to see him putting the bully pulpit of a presidential campaign to positive use on vitally important policy issues.