At this time Congress is debating various amendments on the Cheney/Rockefeller FISA bill.此时美国国会正在辩论的各种修正案对切尼/洛克菲勒FISA法案。 Among others, these amendments include retroactive legal immunity for US Telecom companies that may have illegally given the US government private customer phone records.除其他外,这些修正案包括追溯法律豁免权,美国电信公司可能有非法鉴于美国政府的私人客户的电话记录。 Retroactive immunity is a concept that is better now in totalitarian forms of Government and is of questionable constitutional validity.追溯豁免权是一个概念,现在更好的极权形式的政府,是值得怀疑的宪法效力。 I am proud that one of the representatives of my current home state of New Jersey, Rep. Rush Holt (a fellow physicist) had the courage to make this statement today:我感到自豪的是一个代表我目前的家乡新泽西州众议员拉什霍尔特(一位物理学家)的勇气,使这个今天的发言:

Then there is the courageous Sen. Russ Feingold explaining in simple but precise terms what it is that our current government is after:其次是勇敢的参议员拉斯法因戈尔德解释简单,但精确的用语是什么,我们现政府后:

Is this "Trust us" Government what we want?这是“相信我们”政府我们想要什么?