Word: nsa
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...NSA Wiretapping Judge spanks Bush program A judge ruled the NSA's domestic eavesdropping unconstitutional, but that won't stop the program. A stay is in effect, the Administration is appealing, and Congress is pondering legislative fixes...
...Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, took it upon himself to reassert some limited congressional and judicial oversight of the President's wartime powers. In talks with the Justice Department, the White House and the NSA , his staff pushed to have the program's constitutionality reviewed by the same secretive court, established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Congress passed in the 1970s, that is charged with approving warrants for domestic wiretapping - the same court, in fact, that the Administration had bypassed when it conducted eavesdropping without obtaining warrants...
...issues. At the same time, Lieberman's constant references to his liberal bona fides weren't particularly effective, since Lamont was to his left on many key issues. Lamont repeatedly said Lieberman didn't stand up to Bush; for instance, Lamont said he supports censuring President Bush for the NSA's warrantless domestic surveillance program, a stance Lieberman has not taken...
...such group was traveling across the King Fahd bridge toward Bahrain on Feb. 13, 2003, when they were picked up by Bahraini police. The United States, specifically the CIA, was behind the arrest. The NSA had picked up calls and e-mails from a cluster of Bahrainis that were troubling - boastful talk of what should be done to infidels, and some problem phrases, such as picking up "honey pots." "Honey" is often terrorist code for destructive items...
...region's jihadists was unclear. They did not seem to be tightly connected to several other Saudi cells that were being tracked by the U.S.-Saudi intelligence teams. Nor did they seem connected to the mysterious Swift Sword, who had appeared numerous times on cables picked up by the NSA and seemed to be running matters on the peninsula...