Bush Admin Caves: Hands Over Domestic Spying To Secret Surveillance Court…
The New York Times ERIC LICHTBLAU and DAVID JOHNSTON January 17, 2007 02:20 PM
The Bush administration, in a surprise reversal, said on Wednesday that it had agreed to give a secret court jurisdiction over the National Security Agency's wiretapping program and would end its practice of eavesdropping without warrants on Americans suspected of ties to terrorists.
The Justice Department said it had worked out an "innovative" arrangement with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that provided the "necessary speed and agility" to provide court approval to monitor international communications of people inside the United States without jeopardizing national security.
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The Bush administration, in a surprise reversal, said on Wednesday that it had agreed to give a secret court jurisdiction over the National Security Agency's wiretapping program and would end its practice of eavesdropping without warrants on Americans suspected of ties to terrorists.
The Justice Department said it had worked out an "innovative" arrangement with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that provided the "necessary speed and agility" to provide court approval to monitor international communications of people inside the United States without jeopardizing national security.
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