Specter: White House May 'Allow' FISA Wiretapping Review - Update
Allow?
If, as is indeed the law, the FISA "...act requires warrants from the court for intelligence-related eavesdropping inside the United States," then the Bush administration as surely broken the law and should be held accountable. Period.
A Reuters newswire article by Diane Bartz, via The Boston Globe, reports that:
The White House appears to be leaning toward allowing a secret federal court to look at its controversial warrantless wiretaps, a reversal of previous policy, a top Republican senator said on Sunday.More here.
Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had been pressing the Bush administration to seek clearance from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, court.
The act requires warrants from the court for intelligence-related eavesdropping inside the United States.
Update: The AP newswire article (via Wired News) on the same topic begins on a much more ominous note:
The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation that would write President Bush's warrantless surveillance program into law, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday.More here.
posted by Fergie @ 6/25/2006 11:36:00 AM
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