From The Washington Post, 1/19/06:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011802158_pf.html
Congressional Agency Questions Legality of Wiretaps
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 19, 2006; A05
The Bush administration appears to have violated the National Security
Act by limiting its briefings about a warrantless domestic
eavesdropping program to congressional leaders, according to a memo
from Congress's research arm released yesterday.
The Congressional Research Service opinion said that the amended 1947
law requires President Bush to keep all members of the House and
Senate intelligence committees "fully and currently informed" of such
intelligence activities as the domestic surveillance effort.
The memo from national security specialist Alfred Cumming is the
second report this month from CRS to question the legality of aspects
of Bush's domestic spying program.
A Jan. 6 report concluded that the administration's justifications for
the program conflicted with current law.
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Remember Tricky Dicky's Watergate breakin? Same kinda criminal
political *****.
Harry
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