FISA court judge resigns in protest of Bush spying on Americans

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Judge resigns over spy program
More senators call for probe President Bush's domestic surveillance draws more fire as a judge on a court that OKs spying quits.
By Carol D. Leonnig and Dafna Linzer
The Washington Post

Washington - A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson, one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts late Monday notifying him of his resignation without providing an explanation.

Two associates familiar with his decision said Tuesday that Robertson privately expressed deep concern that the warrantless surveillance program authorized by the president in 2001 was legally questionable and may have tainted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's work.


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Word of Robertson's resignation came as two Senate Republicans Tuesday joined the call for congressional investigations into the National Security Agency's warrantless interception of telephone calls and e-mails to overseas locations by U.S. citizens suspected of links to terrorists.

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