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New Legislation on Eavesdropping Goes to Congress

Siobhan Gorman writes in The Baltimore Sun:

Under the pressure of a hotly contested national election, Congress is on the verge of approving the most sweeping changes to government spying powers in a generation.

Five years after President Bush launched the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program, Congress is expected to take up a measure this week that would strengthen the president's authority to conduct domestic espionage. Bush increased the pressure on lawmakers Friday, saying that the measure, designed to remove a legal cloud over the NSA program, is "essential to winning the war on terror."

posted by Fergie @ 9/18/2006 09:20:00 AM