GOP’s Specter On Wiretapping Program: “For Every Day That Passes, There’s An Invasion Of Privacy That Could Be Cured”…

The New York Times ERIC LICHTBLAU November 24, 2006 11:40 PM

When President Bush went on national television one Saturday morning last December to acknowledge the existence of a secret wiretapping program outside the courts, the fallout was fierce and immediate.

Mr. Bush's opponents accused him of breaking the law, with a few even calling for his impeachment. His backers demanded that he be given express legal authority to do what he had done. Law professors talked, civil rights groups sued and a federal judge in Detroit declared the wiretapping program unconstitutional.

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