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House Will Move on NSA Wiretapping Law

Via UPI.

The chairman of the House intelligence committee has agreed to hold hearings about legislation to regulate the president's program of warrantless wiretaps.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Ill., made the commitment in an exchange with the senior-most Democrat on the committee, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., on the House floor Tuesday.

The program -- under which the National Security Agency listens to the phone calls of terrorist suspects into and out of the United States -- was initiated by President Bush in Ovtober 2001, but only reveled to the public by leaks to the New York Times last year.

posted by Fergie @ 6/21/2006 03:57:00 PM