Like many things with Harry Reid, it's kind of confusing. He is a wheels within wheels kind of guy.
Reid is co-sponsoring cosponsoring the amendment to strip telco immunity, but as this is sure to be filibustered, it not going to happen.
He also says that he's going to vote against the whole bill.
So at least nominally, Reid is on the side of Dodd, Feingold, Wyden and Boxer.
I think that all this is far less noble than one might imagine. I agree with Emptywheel's analysis, that his objections are less about the merits of the bill than they are about holding back any approval until the Housing Bill and Iraq Supplemental, which has, "Webb's GI bill and an extension to unemployment benefits" have passed and have been signed into law.
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