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Congressional Research Service Questions Spy Program Legality

HeadlineJan 09, 2006

This news on the Bush administration’s domestic spy program — The non-partisan Congressional Research Service has concluded President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program is likely illegal. President Bush has argued broad presidential powers approved by Congress shortly after 9/11 grant him the authority to conduct surveillances without seeking warrants from a special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. But in a new report released Friday, the CRS writes that the Bush administration’s legal argument QUOTE: ’’does not seem to be … well-grounded… It appears unlikely that a court would hold that Congress has expressly or impliedly authorized the [National Security Agency] electronic surveillance operations here.”

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