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La Maison Blanche indique que le téléphone met sur écoute en arrière sur « pour maintenant »
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L'administration de Bush a indiqué samedi États-Unis les compagnies de télécommunications ont accepté de coopérer « pour l'instant » avec l'espion que les agences' met sur écoute, en dépit d'une bataille continue nouvelle législation de surveillance de terrorisme entre de la Maison Blanche et du congrès excédent.Le département de justice et l'Office du directeur de l'intelligence nationale ont publié une énonciation commune de rapport met sur écoute reprendront en vertu de la loi courante « au moins pour maintenant. »
“Although our private partners are cooperating for the time being, they have expressed understandable misgivings about doing so in light of the ongoing uncertainty and have indicated they may well discontinue cooperation if the uncertainty persists,” the statement said.
On Friday U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell said telecommunications firms have been reluctant to cooperate with new wiretaps since six-month temporary legislation expired last weekend. As a result, they told Congress, spy agencies have missed intelligence.
Democrats accused the Bush administration of fear-mongering and blamed it for any gaps.
President George W. Bush has said he would not compromise with the Democratic-led Congress on his demand that phone companies be shielded from lawsuits for taking part in his warrantless domestic spying program.
The measure passed by the Senate would provide retroactive lawsuit immunity to firms which cooperated with warrantless wiretaps that Bush authorized after the September 11 attacks. But the House of Representatives has opposed it, and Democratic leaders of both chambers said they would try to find a compromise.
Democratic leaders of congressional intelligence and judiciary committees issued a statement on Friday saying they were committed to passing new legislation and urged Bush to support an extension of the temporary law. Bush has said he would hold out for a permanent overhaul of the 1978 surveillance law.
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