NSA spying comes under legal, political attack

NSA SPYING COMES UNDER LEGAL, POLITICAL ATTACK
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Declan McCullagh]
President Bush's no-longer-secret surveillance program employing the National Security Agency came under a two-pronged attack this week on both political and legal fronts. First, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Thursday that he was contemplating pulling the plug on the NSA spying program by cutting funding--unless, that is, the Bush administration comes clean on how the program works and whether it complies with privacy rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Second, on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in the northern district of California set two hearing dates over the next two months for a lawsuit that seeks to prove that AT&T illegally cooperated with the NSA and violated federal wiretapping laws in doing so. One date is May 17 and the other is June 21.
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* Specter Wants More Debate on Spying
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/27/AR200604...

* Wiretap Funding Cutoff Is Warned
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-nsa28apr28,1,645...