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Hearing: FISA for the 21st Century

Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing today: FISA for the 21st Century. Link to witness statements.

  • AP: President Pushes To Revise Wiretap Law
  • AP: Specter proposes challenge of Bush’s power on laws
  • EFF: The White House/Specter Surveillance Bill
  • S. 2453 – A bill to establish procedures for the review of electronic surveillance programs.
  • ACLU press release: “As the Senate Judiciary Committee met [today] to examine the issue of “modernizing” the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the American Civil Liberties Union urged Congress to reject attempts to further erode the Fourth Amendment and its protections. Since President Bush authorized the warrantless wiretapping and data-mining of Americans by the National Security Agency in 2001, FISA has been constantly violated.”
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