And they want more facts – it’s fact enough that you can be wire-tapped without warning or warrant at any time. Stop fact-finding and shut down the NSA program !!
Year of bipartisan outrage on wiretaps bears little fruit
Eric Lichtblau
New York Times
Nov. 25, 2006 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON – When President Bush went on national television one Saturday morning last December to acknowledge the existence of a secret wiretapping program outside court supervision, the fallout was fierce.
Bush’s opponents accused him of breaking the law, with a few even calling for his impeachment. His backers demanded that he be given express legal authority to do what he had done. Law professors talked, civil rights groups sued and a federal judge in Detroit declared the wiretapping program unconstitutional.
But as Democrats prepare to take over on Capitol Hill, not much has really changed in the last year: The National Security Agency’s wiretapping program continues uninterrupted, with no definitive action by either Congress or the courts on what, if anything, to do about it, and little chance of a breakthrough in the lame-duck Congress.
While the Democrats have vowed to press for more facts about the operation, they are of mixed minds about additional steps.
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