Specter to FBI Chief: "Every Time We Turn Around There Is Another Enormous Failure By The Bureau"

AP MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN March 27, 2007 11:17 AM

FBI Director Robert Mueller labored Tuesday to persuade skeptical senators that the FBI can properly use its terrorism-era authority to gather telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists.

He appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Justice Department inspector general revealed abuses in the FBI's use of documents called national security letters to gather such data without approval from a judge.

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