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How telecoms are attempting to buy amnesty from Congress

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Just in the first three months of 2008, recent lobbyist disclosure statements reveal that AT&T, Verizon and Comcast spent a combined total of almost $13 million on lobbyists. They're set to spend more than $50 million on lobbying this year. This, of course, is what leads to having these corporations literally write our nation's laws and get so close to having such an extraordinarily corrupt gift- retroactive immunity
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