Shame shame shame…….

From Courant.com:

The amendment that Sen. Chris Dodd has been pushing to strip lawsuit immunity from an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was — as expected — trounced in a Senate vote this afternoon. It pulled in 32 votes against 66 in opposition.

In a post-9/11 anti-terrorism program, the federal government sought and received the cooperation of telecommunications companies in tapping the communications of its customers without warrants. Dodd — sharing his amendment with Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis. — thinks the customers should have a right to sue those companies

Sen. Joe Lieberman, who has been on the opposite side from Dodd on this issue, was among those cast votes against Dodd’s amendment.

The FISA bill — an update to the 30-year-old surveillance act — is expected to speed quickly toward passage.