News Item: : Senate Committee Approves Bill to Authorize NSA Snooping
(Category: Privacy/Security)
Posted by DrHook
Tuesday 13 June 2006 - 17:32:18
In a grave threat to civil liberties, the Senate Judiciary Committee today approved legislation that would gut the historic Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allowing the President to carry out wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance inside the United States without a court order. The bill -- sponsored by Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), but radically altered by his Republican colleagues -- would make judicial review for electronic surveillance optional. June 08, 2006
Source: Center for Democracy and Technology
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