[privacy] Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The New York Times.

[snip]

Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow
the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond
wiretapping to include — without court approval — certain types of
physical searches of American citizens and the collection of their business
records, Democratic Congressional officials and other experts said.

Administration officials acknowledged that they had heard such concerns
from Democrats in Congress recently, and that there was a continuing debate
over the meaning of the legislative language. But they said the Democrats
were simply raising theoretical questions based on a harsh interpretation
of the legislation.

They also emphasized that there would be strict rules in place to minimize
the extent to which Americans would be caught up in the surveillance.

The dispute illustrates how lawmakers, in a frenetic, end-of-session
scramble, passed legislation they may not have fully understood and may
have given the administration more surveillance powers than it sought.

[snip]

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/washington/19fisa.html

- - ferg

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