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NSA Spying Bill Heads for Committee Vote

Caron Carlson writes on eWeek:

The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on legislation March 30 that would direct the Bush administration to submit the details of the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic spying program to the secret foreign intelligence surveillance court for review.

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the committee and author of the legislation, said that only the judicial branch can determine the constitutionality of the NSA program, which Bush authorized in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and which The New York Times disclosed late last year.

Specter said that he believes the program violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but that he does not have enough information to determine whether the president's constitutional powers entitle him to ignore FISA.

posted by Fergie @ 3/28/2006 04:14:00 PM