Bush ontspoort Pogingen om Onwettige Wiretaps te beëindigen

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President Bush ontspoorde een rekening door het Congres van de V.S. dat op het einde van het onwettige aftappen van het Beleid door documenten niet te verstrekken met betrekking tot het warrantless het aftappenprogramma van de Voorzitter wordt gericht aan het Comité van de Intelligentie van de Senaat dat de voorgestelde momenteel wetgeving herziet.

Het huis van de V.S. van vertegenwoordigers ging vorige maand het Akte van de Vergunning van de Intelligentie voor de rekening van het Fiscale Jaar 2008 met een amendement over dat tot het Buitenlandse Akte van het Toezicht van de Intelligentie van 1978 (FISA) de enige middelen maakt waardoor het binnenlandse elektronische toezicht voor het verzamelen van buitenlandse intelligentieinformatie kan worden geleid.

The bill has been referred to the Senate Intelligence Committee, but the Committee is unable to proceed as the White House has repeatedly refused to hand over the relevant documents.

“Another critical priority for congressional oversight is government wiretapping of Americans, conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and, illegally, under the President’s warrantless wiretapping program,” Senator Russ Feingold said. “When the program was finally placed within the FISA process, an opportunity arose for the Administration and the Congress to move forward, under the law. Unfortunately, the Administration has yet to demonstrate a real interest in doing so.”

Feingold accused the Administration of seeking broad new authorities unrelated to keeping FISA up-todate with new technology, and pursuing these authorities while refusing to rule out further surveillance activities entirely outside of the law.

“For more than four years, the Administration failed to inform the full congressional intelligence committees of the warrantless wiretapping program,” said the Senator who cosponsored an ammendment by co-sponsor by Senator Feinstein to ensure that all members of the Committee receive, at a minimum, summary information about programs that the Administration has sought to limit to the Chairman and Vice Chairman. “In doing so, the Administration violated the National Security Act, which allows restricted notification to the “Gang of Eight” only in certain limited cases involving covert action.”

In 2005 Bush acknowledged that he authorised the National Security Agency in 2002 to eavesdrop on US citizens communicating with people overseas.

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