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CRS attacked again on wiretap bias.

UPI Security & Terrorism

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Byline: SHAUN WATERMAN

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Another House GOP committee chair has joined criticism of the Congressional Research Service for its legal analysis of the administration's program of warrantless counter-terrorist electronic surveillance.

Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc., conservative chairman of the powerful House Committee on the Judiciary, wrote to the service's director, Daniel Mulhollan, earlier this month.

In the letter, Sensenbrenner says that he asked two legal scholars to review the 44-page Jan. 5 CRS memorandum on the surveillance program -- which analyzed the administration's legal rationale for the program as laid out at that time, and found it wanting.

Sensenbrenner said the scholars, both of whom have conservative reputations, "expressed concerns that the memorandum is based on an incomplete analysis…

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