Senator Specter: Surveillance of Americans Is Unlawful Without Court Order

[kpete]

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA)

I'd like to know specifically what the administration has in mind. They talk about constitutional authority. There are limits as to what the president can do under the constitution, especially in a context where you have the foreign intelligence surveillance act, which makes it unlawful to have spies or surveillance or interceptions on citizens in the United States unless there is a court order.
http://dissent.blogspot.com/

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/18/le.01.html

[Punkingal]

1. Yes, he said that....

Then on MTP yesterday he said, "Let's don't turn this into an attack on the President."

[enough]

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