NSA Spying Comes Under Legal, Political Attack
Listening to: Boss On The Boat - Greg Day, Damian Stanley
From news.com:
WASHINGTON–President Bush’s no-longer-secret surveillance program
employing the National Security Agency came under a two-pronged attack this week on
both political and legal fronts.
First, a key Republican
senator said Thursday that he was contemplating pulling the plug on the NSA spying
program by cutting funding–unless, that is, the Bush administration comes clean on
how the program works and whether it complies with privacy rights guaranteed by the
U.S. Constitution.
“When you’re withholding funds,
here you’re talking about real authority,” Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters at a press conference at
the U.S. Capitol. Specter said he met with Bush on Wednesday but was unable to find
common ground.
