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Al Gore Assails Domestic Wiretapping Program

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reoprts that:

Former Vice President Al Gore asserted Monday that President Bush “repeatedly and persistently” broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant and called for a federal investigation of the practice.

Speaking on Martin Luther King Jr.’s national holiday, the man who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush only after a ruling by the Supreme Court on a recount in Florida, called Bush’s warrantless surveillance program “a threat to the very structure of our government.” Gore charged that the program has ignored the checks and balances of the courts and Congress.

Gore said that Bush’s actions — which the president has defended as indispensable in the war against terrorism — represented a “direct assault” on the special federal court that considers, and decides whether to authorize, administration requests to eavesdrop on Americans.

posted by Fergie @ 1/16/2006 01:03:00 PM