Re: [privacy] Specter: White House May 'Allow' FISA Wiretapping Review

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

Also, the AP newswire article (via Wired News) on the same topic
begins on a much more ominous note:

[snip]

The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation
that would write President Bush's warrantless surveillance program into
law, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71238-0.html

The Wired News article is aptly entitled, "Gov't Break a Law?
Change It."

I am not amused.

- ferg

-- "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:

Allow?

If, as is indeed the law, the FISA "...act requires warrants from
the court for intelligence-related eavesdropping inside the United
States," then the Bush administration as surely broken the law and
should be held accountable. Period.

Via The Boston Globe (Reuters).

[snip]

The White House appears to be leaning toward allowing a secret federal
court to look at its controversial warrantless wiretaps, a reversal of
previous policy, a top Republican senator said on Sunday.

Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had
been pressing the Bush administration to seek clearance from the secret
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, court.

The act requires warrants from the court for intelligence-related
eavesdropping inside the United States.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/06/25/white_house_may_allow_wiretapping_review_specter/

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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