In another display of bipartisanship our glorious US Senate has approved a FISA bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecom companies that illegally and profitably provided private customer data to the US government during the last couple of years.在另一个展示我们的光荣两党美国参议院已经批准了一项FISA法案，包括追溯豁免权的电信公司，非法和盈利提供了私人的客户数据，美国政府在过去几年里。 See this report by Glenn Greenwald for more details on this issue.见本报告格伦格林沃德的更多细节这个问题。

Our government needs to have the means available to protect its citizens from foreign and domestic threats.我们的政府需要有可利用的手段保护其公民免受外国和国内的威胁。 No one denies this point.没有人否认这一点。 But the circumvention of checks and balances is not an option because it inevitably leads to abuse of power by the "simply trust us to do the right thing" executive branch.但是，规避制衡不是一种选择，因为它必然导致滥用权力的“信任我们只是做正确的事”行政部门。