[privacy] CIA: Warrants Hurt al Qaeda Hunt

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

Via Wired News (Reuters).

[snip]

CIA Director Michael Hayden told senators on Wednesday that the
requirement of court orders to carry out electronic surveillance inside
the United States was ill-suited for tracking al Qaeda and other
militant groups.

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the intelligence
official who crafted President George W. Bush's domestic spying program
also said international phone calls targeted by warrantless
surveillance are the most valuable to protecting national security.

"Why should our laws make it more difficult to target al Qaeda
communications that are most important to us -- those entering or
leaving this country," said Hayden, an Air Force general who set up the
administration's eavesdropping program in 2001 as director of the
National Security Agency.

Congress is debating how to accommodate the legally questionable NSA
eavesdropping program by changing the 1978 Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, or FISA.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71469-0.html

- ferg


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