Jorda said granting immunity to Milosevic "would be a severe blow" to the tribunal.

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" And Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, appeared to back up Feingold's assessment, saying the process of granting immunity will be "a formality.

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Although ministry officials did take swift action by granting immunity to the guy who signed the contracts, they did not take the magic wands out of service, and according to this report people were still waving them around expecting to find bombs as recently as three weeks ago.

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The McCain proposal will be reviewed by Congress as it considers whether to enact legislation granting limited immunity to the industry in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars and marketing concessions over 25 years.

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They conceded the U.S. doesn't abide by the international conventions but has its own laws granting limited immunity to figures such as their client who are in the U.S. on legitimate business for international organizations.

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CISPA, which passed the House last year but never reached a vote in the Senate, has drawn fire for a provision that would allow companies to hand over cybersecurity threat information to government agencies that include the National Security Agency and Department of Defense, even granting them immunity from existing laws and regulations that would prevent the sharing of some sensitive information.

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By contrast, the Obama executive order strips away those limitations, granting the international law enforcement agency blanket immunity from official and private efforts to assess its activities in the United States.

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