In good news on the progressive front, Leahy, Dodd and Feingold are about to reopen the big can of spying worms that is American Telecom.

Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Russ Feingold (D- WI), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) announced today that they will introduce the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act, which eliminates retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly participated in President Bush’s warrant-less wiretapping program.

I believe we best defend America when we also defend its founding principles,” said Dodd. “We make our nation safer when we eliminate the false choice between liberty and security. But by granting retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies who may have participated in warrant-less wiretapping of American citizens, the Congress violated the protection of our citizen’s privacy and due process right and we must not allow that to stand.

This is good news, made my day. We should all get behind this, write these three senators and express our support. Write all the other senators and urge their support of this bill that reasserts the constitutional rights of the American people, who by the way are their bosses.