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...million). However, the White House did agree with one of Snowe's suggestions, announcing the next day a proposal to increase fuel economy standards for cars, as part of its strategy to reduce gas prices. On the other hand, when Republican Arlen Specter brought up his concerns about the NSA domestic wiretapping program that allows searches without warrants, the President "didn't choose to engage" on the issue, according to the senator. The next day Specter held a press conference in which he said he might seek to withhold funds from the NSA for the searches until the Administration informed...
...BlackBerry, cell phone and 24/7 news on TV. Apart from wasting a precious commodity (water), it would appear he's never heard of the off switch. Margaret Callow Courbevoie, France Above the Law? While I believe that presidential wiretapping for political reasons is wrong, the National Security Agency (NSA) can read my e-mail and listen to my phone conversations all day long if it will help them find the bad guys. [Jan. 23] I don't think the NSA, the CIA or any other government agency will have time to weed through our everyday mail. They know whom...
...there is a vast difference between the lame NSA thriller and the religion-questioning smash...
...show "probable cause" to a secret court before they attached bugs to a suspect's phone lines. All indications are that, under the post-9/11 program, a softer legal trigger was used. How much softer? That's an explosive legal and political mystery. Michael Hayden, the former NSA head who has taken a public role in defending the program but who is not a lawyer, has implied that the NSA officers who were manning the spotter desks had to have a reason to believe that a terrorist plot might be in the works. But Gonzales, who will no doubt...
...According to Townsend, the White House declassified the details of the 2002 plot because most of the leads in the investigation had been exhausted. A senior Administraion official brushed aside the notion that the speech was timed to this week's grilling of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over the NSA program, noting that today's speech has been in the works since last year. "It takes forever to sign off on declassification," the official said. Townsend wouldn't confirm or deny if the NSA wiretapping, first revealed by The New York Times, has been used to foil the Los Angeles...