Summary
The Bush administration is fuming, with White House press secretary Tony Snow tersely noting that the administration "couldn't disagree more" with U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's decision to strike down its secret wiretap program.
The judge held Thursday that the surveillance violates constitutional prohibitions against unreasonable searches and seizures, and that the administration had unlawfully bypassed the secret foreign intelligence court established by Congress.See the full content of this document
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Wiretap Program Belongs in Political Arena
She rejected arguments that the president has the "inherent" power to conduct this kind of spying, and was unpersuaded that Congress implicitly authorized t...
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