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President Bush and our intelligence agencies want to go after terrorists abroad.(The Week)(Brief article)

National Review

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President Bush and our intelligence agencies want to go after terrorists abroad. The Democrats and their trial-lawyer partners seem as interested in going after American businesses that have cooperated in good faith with anti-terrorism operations. That's the short version of Nancy Pelosi's decision to stick the stiletto into a bipartisan bill--one supported by two-thirds of Senate Democrats--that would have restored our intelligence agencies' ability to monitor communications among foreign terrorism suspects operating outside of the United States. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was intended to protect Americans at home from being spied on by the government without a warrant. But an unnamed judge for a secret court issued an unpublished opinion extending FISA protections to Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, China--the ...

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