WP: Surveillance Bill Meets Resistance in Senate

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072001708.html

Surveillance Bill Meets Resistance in Senate

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 21, 2006; Page A09

A Senate surveillance bill personally negotiated by President Bush and Vice President Cheney ran into immediate trouble this week, as Democrats and other critics attacked the proposal while key GOP leaders in the House endorsed a different bill on the same topic.

The Senate legislation, drafted during negotiations between the White House and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), would allow the administration to submit the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program to a secret intelligence court for review of its legality.

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Other GOP proposals -- including bills proposed by Wilson and Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) -- are also opposed by Democrats and civil-liberties groups because they formally authorize the NSA program. But the scope of the Wilson bill, for example, is more limited than Specter's, and requires the executive branch to brief all members of the House and Senate intelligence committees.

Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said she opposes all of the GOP proposals dealing with the NSA issue, calling them "solutions in search of a problem."

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1. all of them ignore the fact that the WH broke the law.

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2. kick

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