The New York Times reports "Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include--without court approval--certain types of physical searches on American soil and the collection of Americans' business records, Democratic Congressional officials and other experts said." According to the report, "The dispute illustrates how lawmakers, in a frenetic, end-of-session scramble, passed legislation they may not have fully understood and may have given the administration more surveillance powers than it sought."