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NTY: Warrantless wiretaps got too little review

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

On NYTimes.com within the last 45 minutes: Report Says Wiretaps Got Too Little Legal Review on the Bush Administrations warrantless wiretaps: The Bush administration had defended the wiretapping program, one of the government’s most highly classified operations to have been disclosed in recent years, as a vital intelligence-gathering tool that gave intelligence officials the ability to respond more quickly to possible terrorist threats. But the independent auditors, reviewing the program at the request of Congress, found that other intelligence tools used in assessing threats provided more timely information and that the value of the program was unclear. The report said that while the program obtained information that “had value in some counterterrorism investigations, it generally played a limited role in the F...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).