[IP] Republicans push thru unlimited wiretap powers for Bush
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From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger@xxxxxxx>
Date: September 14, 2006 2:15:53 AM JST
To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Farber
<dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Republicans push thru unlimited wiretap powers for Bush
Limits to Surveillance Bill Blocked
http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8K428700.html
By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer
September 13,2006 | WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans blocked
Democratic attempts to rein in President Bush's domestic wiretapping
program Wednesday amid a sustained White House campaign to give the
administration broad authority to monitor, interrogate and prosecute
terrorism suspects.
While refusing to give the president a blank check to prosecute the
war on terrorism, Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee kept
to the White House's condition that a bill giving legal status to the
surveillance program pass unamended.
By voice vote and roll calls, Republicans defeated Democratic
amendments to insert a one-year expiration date into the bill and
require the National Security Agency to report more often to Congress
on the standards for its domestic surveillance program.
"We just don't want to see Americans' rights abused for the next 50
or 60 years because of an oversight on our part," said Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, D-Calif., who joined some Republicans in opposing some
amendments offered by her Democratic colleagues.
But Republicans countered that the bill represented the best deal on
the matter and should not be amended -- conforming with the White
House's condition that Bush would sign it into law if passed unchanged.
The deal is part of the White House's election-season campaign to
preserve its ability to fight the war on terror despite congressional
concerns about civil liberties.
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