RTFA: http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/…

Washington Post report that Senate Republicans have outmaneuvered Democrats, who withdrew a more stringent version of legislation to control the government’s domestic surveillance program. The legislation that will go forward includes a grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have assisted the program.

Normally I would link to the washington post article, but there are some interesting comments worth reading on slashdot.