The wages of the FISA compromise: more unauthorized wiretaps

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The two New York Times journalists who broke the original Bush-era NSA wiretapping story in 2005 have published fresh revelations of new abuses of the program, which include alleged access to Americans’ domestic communications and an attempt to wiretap a member of Congress without a warrant. The article reports that “officials with both the House and Senate intelligence committees said they had concerns that the agency had ignored civil liberties safeguards built into last year’s wiretapping law.” Click here to read the rest of this article