Secret Court to Govern Wiretapping Plan
The Justice Department, easing a Bush administration policy, said Wednesday it has decided to give an independent body authority to monitor the government's controversial domestic spying program.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707T.shtml
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Administration: We’ll stop breaking wiretap law
CNN
01/17/07
Reversing a position it defended for more than a year, the Bush administration announced Wednesday that it has begun getting court approval before eavesdropping on the communications of suspected terrorists or their associates. The Justice Department notified Congress that a court set up to specialize in wiretapping would oversee its ‘terrorist surveillance program,’ which the administration has said could operate without judicial review. Critics said that violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which set up a special court to review wiretap applications in intelligence cases...
http://tinyurl.com/2x98vu
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domestic+spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707T.shtml
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Administration: We’ll stop breaking wiretap law
CNN
01/17/07
Reversing a position it defended for more than a year, the Bush administration announced Wednesday that it has begun getting court approval before eavesdropping on the communications of suspected terrorists or their associates. The Justice Department notified Congress that a court set up to specialize in wiretapping would oversee its ‘terrorist surveillance program,’ which the administration has said could operate without judicial review. Critics said that violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which set up a special court to review wiretap applications in intelligence cases...
http://tinyurl.com/2x98vu
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=domestic+spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
rudkla - 18. Jan, 00:22
