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Thursday, August 2, 2007

A Push to Rewrite Wiretap Law

The Washington Post reports, "The Bush administration is pressing Congress this week for the authority to intercept, without a court order, any international phone call or e-mail between a surveillance target outside the United States and any person in the United States." "The proposal, submitted by Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell to congressional leaders on Friday," according to the report, "would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for the first time since 2006 so that a court order would no longer be needed before wiretapping anyone 'reasonably believed to be located outside of the United States.'"