Panel to Call for Review of Wiretapping of Scholar

A Congressional oversight panel plans to ask the National Security Agency to start an investigation into new evidence that the agency illegally wiretapped a Muslim scholar in Northern Virginia and concealed the eavesdropping during a 2005 trial in which the scholar was convicted on terrorism charges. Rep Rush Holt (D-NJ), chairman of the Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, said in an interview that he planned to ask the inspector general of the NSA to open what would be the first formal investigation by the agency into whether its eavesdropping program had improperly interfered with an American's right to a fair trial.