John Boehner can rely on Townhall to uncritically print whatever he writes but unfortunately for him there are other sources which print stuff other than Republican Party propaganda. They’re called news sources.

Boehner writes that, “Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has stonewalled a bipartisan national security bill needed to allow U.S. intelligence personnel to listen in on conversations involving al Qaeda terrorist operatives” because of “…the trial lawyer industry — which opposes the bipartisan bill because it prevents patriotic companies from being sued after cooperating with the government’s terrorist surveillance efforts”

Oh Puleeze…

Currently, U.S. intelligence isn't required to get court permission to eavesdrop on foreign targets communicating with other foreigners, even if those communications flow through U.S. telephone or computer switches. If Americans are to be targeted for surveillance, however, the secret court must issue a warrant.

Here is background if interested:

Bush pushes for telecom immunity

The argument with this bill is that it would also require the Justice Department to reveal to Congress the details of all electronic surveillance conducted without court orders since Sept. 11, 2001. The Bush administration wants to retroactively excuse any crimes before the extent of the violations are even known to cover-up the fact that it blatantly arm-twisted the telecommunications industry into violating the law.

It’s a cover-up for breaking the law, plain and simple; another legacy of the Bush administration which they’re trying to hide.

And Pelosi is doing this for the trial lawyers? The whole thing was already worked out to pass after the House voted it down back in March except that three days before the revote the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general announced an investigation because, “The FBI has wielded the Patriot Act's extraordinary surveillance powers to unlawfully collect information about American citizens.”

Inspector general: FBI not embracing privacy safeguards

The Justice Department’s investigation derailed the vote which Pelosi was prepared to cave in on.

I wish she had the backbone to stand up on her own principles.