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The Specter surrender on wiretapping.(Arlen Specter)
On July 13, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) announced a "compromise" agreement with the White House regarding the controversial NSA wiretapping program (which Specter had volubly criticized as unconstitutional).
The president would "voluntarily" agree to have the court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) assess the constitutionality of the wiretapping program. The FISA court, however, was established in 1978 to review specific warrant requests, rather than to hand down broad constitutional rulings. In exchange for the "concession" of al lowing FISA--the wrong court--to issue that ruling, Specter's proposed bill would strip all other federal courts of appellate jurisdiction on matters of electronic surveillance and wiretapping.
"This bill is not a compromise but a full-fledged capitulation on the part of the ...
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...to mend fences with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter over the administration's warrantless eavesdropping...from KRT Photo Service, 202-383-6099): ARLEN SPECTER, DICK CHENEY For reprints, email tmsreprints...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 17, 2006 700+ words
...Washington Press Club Foundation's 62nd Annual Congressional Dinner will feature Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Penn., and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md. Andrea Mitchell of NBC News will be Master of Ceremonies...
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- News wire article from: International Wire June 15, 2005 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Congress Daily AM March 17, 1999 700+ words
...attachment to the Senate's supplemental appropriations measure, as Senate Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and subcommittee ranking member Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, are collaborating on a measure that would...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 7, 2005 700+ words
...counsel to U.S. Senate Judiciary Chairman, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and as senior staff for the Senate Judiciary...served as general counsel to U.S. Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter where he handled pharmaceutical, tax, trade and...
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