[privacy] House GOP Leaders Fight Wiretapping Limits, While NSA Writes Own Reco mmendation Letter

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Ahem.

Via The Washington Post.

[snip]

House leaders moved yesterday to temper many of the controls that a
bill headed toward rapid passage would have imposed on the Bush
administration's program for wiretapping terrorism suspects without
court approval.

The bill, set for Judiciary Committee consideration today, would have
forced the administration to seek a warrant for surveillance within 60
days and bolstered consultations with Congress on the program. But
last-minute changes pushed by senior Republicans may allow warrantless
surveillance to largely continue without those controls. Instead, House
Republican leaders brought their bill in line with legislation agreed
to by the White House and the Senate, which would allow but not require
the administration to submit the program to a secret court for a
constitutional review.

Republican leaders, in the midst of an increasingly angry attack on
Democrats over defense matters, made it clear that they will not
challenge President Bush's authority in matters of national security as
they challenge their opponents' commitment to fighting terrorism.

[snip]

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091201492.html

On a related note, this from 27B Stroke 6:

[snip]

The National Security Agency advised Senators who wanted to know what
they could publicly say about the NSA's warrantless spying on
American's international communications that they should say that the
"country owes [the NSA] an enormous debt of gratitude] and that "the
program must continue," according to AP and Washington Post stories.

[snip]

More:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1555996

- ferg


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