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...soon as the Bush administration acknowledged in late 2005 that it had been listening to conversations between suspected terrorists overseas and people in the U.S. without obtaining a court warrant, Democrats started debating privately what to do about the so-called warrantless wiretapping. They quickly split into three camps: one wanted to outlaw the unsupervised surveillance, another preferred to rewrite the law to okay the practice, and a third just wanted to punish the White House for overreaching...
...mind what you are doing--we just don't like the way you did it. A bill by Democratic Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan would require getting a warrant to listen to calls of suspected terrorists in the U.S. But the act would authorize most other warrantless intercepts of calls between targets or suspects overseas and phones in the U.S. The measure requires that intelligence officials submit procedures to a court before starting such blanket snooping. Officials must also prove that the law isn't being used to launch fishing expeditions that needlessly infringe on the privacy of innocent...
...national intelligence, cited the case earlier this week before a Senate committee hearing as an example of why the U.S. needs to stick with a controversial new law, scheduled to expire in five months, that sharply increases the power of the government to spy on suspects. The law authorizes warrantless wiretaps of people believed to be outside of the United States or where a "foreign" connection is suspected. Critics have said the law could be used to spy on American citizens without judicial oversight. A previous interpretation of the law required investigators to obtain warrants...
...legal system also is not keeping pace with forensic investigation methods. There have been several conflicting appellate opinions on warrantless cell phone searches and the law is not "settled" at this point, ACLU's Calabrese says. Just as emerging fingerprint and DNA technologies were challenged, cell phone evidence is under scrutiny. In the meantime, all of us - innocent citizen and criminals alike - continue to pump ever more data into cell phones and PDAs, those indispensable companions that have so much to say about...
...piece of legislation that means a lot to him: a bill to allow the government to eavesdrop on international communications without obtaining a special court order. Bush and the G.O.P. leadership are pushing for quick passage of the bill after a secret court ruling several months ago suspended the warrantless wiretapping activities. Republicans would like to grant the Attorney General the power to approve such activities, while Democrats are insisting that he be forced to get sign-off from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts - the same court that suspended the controversial program. Specter has sided with the Democrats, saying...