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Committee Approves Subpoena Authority on NSA Snooping

Via CDT.org.

The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted 13-3 to give Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) the authority to issue subpoenas for information and documents relating to the administration's warrantless wiretapping of Americans.

CDT [Center for Democracy & Technology] supports the committee's effort to conduct rigorous oversight on warrantless surveillance activities to determine the extent to which they have impacted Americans' privacy rights. The administration is seeking to rewrite the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to legalize warrantless wiretapping of Americans who communicate with people abroad or with foreign embassies and related entities in the U.S.

CDT renewed its call for Congress to convene a joint inquiry to take a serious, in-depth look at domestic surveillance in the U.S. and whether current law is adequate to protect privacy in the digital age.

posted by Fergie @ 6/22/2007 05:19:00 AM