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Advocacy Groups to Congress: Forget H-P. What About NSA?

Anne Broache writes on the C|Net Politics Blog:

The spying scandal that rocked Hewlett-Packard's boardroom may be disconcerting to many onlookers, but Congress would be better served if it devoted the same sort of scrutiny to the Bush Administration's warrantless terrorist surveillance program, advocacy groups and some politicians said Thursday.

The remarks by politicos came at a daylong hearing convened by a U.S. House of Representatives oversight and investigations subcommittee to inquire about the legally questionable tactics, including fraudulent obtaining of phone records, used by the leading Silicon Valley firm to investigate media leaks.

Rep. Anna Eshoo, a California Democrat whose constituency covers HP's Palo Alto headquarters, said she found it ironic that the House was at the same time preparing to consider a controversial bill that she said would overthrow a 1978 law governing electronic surveillance. If that measure--scheduled for a vote later on Thursday night--succeeds, then the American people should "get set for surveillance," she suggested.

posted by Fergie @ 9/28/2006 06:54:00 PM