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Politics

The Case for Immunity

By Matthew Yglesias
February 29, 2008
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Watch in amazement as George W. Bush, President of the United States, explains that we must refrain from punishing lawbreaking telecom firms because if they get punished for breaking the law, they might not be willing to break it again in the future. There's certainly a part of that analysis I'm prepared to endorse.