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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elroy who wrote (272840)2/8/2006 9:28:22 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1575709
 
"Since the passage of the Patriot Act the Bush administration asked (who again?) for the power to listen in on calls between people in the US and people outside the US that are suspected of having relations to Al Qaeda?"

There was the so-called Patriot Act II

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If Tom Daschle is to be believed, Bush wanted wider powers in Patriot, but was declined.

The president's assertion that Congress by resolution implicitly granted him license to order domestic eavesdropping was countered in a disclosure by former Sen. Tom Daschle (D, South Dakota) that the administration, two weeks before Bush's order, had sought such authority, but was rebuffed. Moreover, the resolution makes no reference to surveillance or the president's intelligence-gathering powers.
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