Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Spy agencies call for broader surveillance laws | CNET News.com

Too bad that nothing that has happened during this administration would lead anyone to trust them with this kind of power.

Truth be told, no executive should have this kind of power.

Spy agencies call for broader surveillance laws CNET News.com:

WASHINGTON--The heads of the nation's two major spy agencies on Wednesday told Congress that it's impractical to seek warrants before tracking the global phone and Internet activities of groups like al-Qaida and terrorist sympathizers.

At a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing here, CIA Director Michael Hayden (who until recently headed the National Security Agency) and NSA Director Keith Alexander urged adoption of a proposal that would grant spy agencies more power and current practices more legitimacy. The proposed law amounts to a rewrite of the 1978 wiretapping law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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