Olbermann Special Comment--Bush put telecoms ahead of citizens

Last night, Keith Olbermann gave another Special Comment on his Countdown program. The issue here is the Senate has refused to pass legislation permanently protecting the telecom industry, from prosecution, for helping the Bush administration in conducting domestic spying on American citizens. Bush wants to give the telecoms immunity. The Senate Democrats want to continue investigating the telecoms' role in this Bush domestic spying program. In a compromise, the Senate has extended the current surveillance law for another 15 days, with Bush signing the law, as both Congress and the White House continue this fight. In his Special Comment, Olbermann states that Bush is placing the telecom industry ahead of American citizens in threatening his veto of this latest surveillance legislation because it doesn't contain the immunity provision for the telecoms. Here is Olbermann's Special Comment:



And here is the transcript.