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Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Surveillance Laws Update in Face of Veto Threat - UPDATE

Terry Frieden writes for CNN:

The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday passed on a strict party-line vote an update to the nation's electronic surveillance laws despite a veto threat from the attorney general.

The bill would mean the nation's intelligence services do not need to request a court warrant to monitor foreign-to-foreign communications involving suspected terrorists.

All 10 Democrats on the committee voted for the measure, while all nine Republicans opposed it.

Republicans objected to the effort to push through a complicated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act modernization plan on which they had not been consulted.

More here.

UPDATE: 19:39 PST: The AP is reporting that the full house approved this measure by a vote of 227-189. Details here. -ferg

posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2007 03:01:00 PM