Bid to review eavesdropping laws

[Judi Lynn]

Bid to review eavesdropping laws
From: Reuters By Joanne Kenen in Washington
January 23, 2006

US surveillance laws should be reviewed and possibly rewritten to allow the type of eavesdropping that US President George W. Bush has been criticised for authorising, politicans from both parties have said.

Democrats and some Republicans have said the Bush administration's classified warrantless eavesdropping program is illegal.

The White House has strongly defended the National Security Agency surveillance as legal and essential. The Senate Judiciary Committee starts hearings on the issue on February 6.
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Politicians on several talk shows yesterday said that if the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) did not give Mr Bush the tools and legal framework he needed to monitor potential threats, the President should ask Congress to change the law rather than bypass it.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17907434-38198,00.html

[rodeodance]

1. and they went on to say that congress would give him that change--with

a few hesistations.
I worry about this--coming from Dems. It is the newscasters that push the question.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Judas freakin' priest!

If it's illegal rewrite the laws?!

Maybe I should go to bed and quit reading tonight, you think so Judi? It's only 8:46 though! :)

Peace
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