[declan]

Yes. And this retroactive immunity for illegal (and in some cases criminal) activities, which Candidate Obama supported despite telling me ~six months earlier he would not: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9986716-38.html

"...voting to derail lawsuits against telecommunications companies that unlawfully opened their networks to the National Security Agency. Senators voted 69 to 28 for the bill, which would rewrite federal wiretap laws by granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies..."