Federal Judges Belatedly Briefed on Domestic Spying
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
The federal judges who were bypassed when the Bush administration ordered warrantless wiretaps in the United States received a secret briefing Monday on details of the surveillance.
Separately, a former FBI director and other lawyers questioned whether the surveillance is legal.
The classified briefing at the Justice Department had been requested by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, presiding judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court. Established by Congress in the late 1970s, the court oversees the government’s handling of espionage and terrorism investigations.
posted by Fergie @ 1/09/2006 08:23:00 PM
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