The Bush administration agreed Wednesday to let a secret but independent panel of federal judges oversee the government's controversial domestic spying program. Officials say the secret court has already approved at least one request for monitoring. The shift will likely end a court fight over whether the warrantless surveillance program was legal. The American Civil Liberties Union, which sued the government over the program, called the Justice Department's announcement "a quintessential flip-flop."
January 18, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The Bush administration changed course and agreed Wednesday to let a secret but independent panel of federal judges oversee the government’s controversial domestic spying program. Officials say the secret court has already approved at least one request for monitoring.
The shift will likely end a court fight over whether the warrantless surveillance program was legal.
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