
Bush defends spying at home, calls it terror surveillance Times of India \|\| January 27, 2006 MANHATTAN: President Bush is pushing back at critics of his once-secret domestic spying effort, saying it should be called a "terrorist surveillance program" and contending it has the backing of legal experts, lawmakers and the US Supreme Court. Several members of Congress from both major parties have questioned the legality of having the National Security Agency snoop without first obtaining court warrants. That is because the program bypasses a special federal court that, by law, must authorise eavesdropping on Americans; and because the president provided only limited notification to a few lawmakers. "It's amazing that people say to me, 'Well, he's just breaking the law.' If I wanted to break the law, why was I briefing Congress?" Bush said on Monday before a large and friendly audience on a college campus in the heartland state of Kansas. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com One of those who had been informed, senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was sitting on the dais as he spoke. Bush's remarks were part of an administration campaign to defend the programme as a crucial terror-fighting tool. White House is trying to sell its side of the story before the Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings on it in two weeks About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Bush defends spying at home, calls it terror surveillance

Times of India || January 27, 2006

MANHATTAN: President Bush is pushing back at critics of his once-secret domestic spying effort, saying it should be called a "terrorist surveillance program" and contending it has the backing of legal experts, lawmakers and the US Supreme Court.

Several members of Congress from both major parties have questioned the legality of having the National Security Agency snoop without first obtaining court warrants.

That is because the program bypasses a special federal court that, by law, must authorise eavesdropping on Americans; and because the president provided only limited notification to a few lawmakers.

"It's amazing that people say to me, 'Well, he's just breaking the law.' If I wanted to break the law, why was I briefing Congress?" Bush said on Monday before a large and friendly audience on a college campus in the heartland state of Kansas.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

One of those who had been informed, senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was sitting on the dais as he spoke. Bush's remarks were part of an administration campaign to defend the programme as a crucial terror-fighting tool.

White House is trying to sell its side of the story before the Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings on it in two weeks

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