After months of delay, the U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote tomorrow on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and whether telecoms should have immunity for assisting with warrantless wiretapping. H.R. 6304, the Hoyer/Bush FISA deal, would essentially gut FISA and allow mass, untargeted surveillance of Americans' conversations, and provide immunity to the telecoms who participated.

Under the bill, telecoms would be able to get out of the multitude of ongoing court cases by getting a congressional 'get out of jail free' card. As Caroline Fredrickson, the director of the ACLU’s Washington (D.C.) Legislative Office, put it: