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Senate Panel Split Over Questioning Phone Company Executives

A Bloomberg News article by James Rowley, via The Washington Post, reports that:

Members of a Senate committee are divided over proposals to question executives of four telephone companies about whether they gave the government records of millions of calls in the United States to aid anti-terrorist surveillance.

After objections from both Republicans and Democrats, Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) yesterday postponed a vote on issuing subpoenas for the chief executives of Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Inc., BellSouth Corp. and Qwest Communications International Inc. He scheduled more debate for June 6 after Congress returns from a one-week recess.

posted by Fergie @ 5/27/2006 07:38:00 AM