CDT, July 14, 2006: “Contrary to press reports of a White House compromise on NSA legislation, Senator Specter has agreed to a bill that would shield the Administration from accountability for its illegal warrantless wiretapping. The bill has been erroneously described as requiring judicial review of the President’s warrantless wiretapping program. In fact, the bill retroactively guts the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by making judicial review of the program by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court optional. It would also allow electronic surveillance in violation of the Fourth Amendment’s requirements of probable cause and individualized suspicion.”