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February 17, 2006
NYT: Roberts part of White House coverup
Here is the New York Times editorial page's take (no-fee subscription required) on the job Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is doing regarding the NSA eavesdropping.
Now Mr. Roberts is trying to stop an investigation into Mr. Bush's decision to allow the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without getting the warrants required by a 27-year-old federal law enacted to stop that sort of abuse.Mr. Roberts had promised to hold a committee vote yesterday on whether to investigate. But he canceled the vote, and then made two astonishing announcements. He said he was working with the White House on amending the 1978 law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to permit warrantless spying. And then he suggested that such a change would eliminate the need for an inquiry.
The Times also points out that Roberts (whose actions it describes as "outrageous") is attempting to amend FISA law to basically make what the NSA has been doing legal.
Posted by Laura Spadanuta at February 17, 2006 07:26 AM
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