President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists.
“This law is badly out of date,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.
President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists. Bush noted that terrorists now use disposable cell phones and the Internet to communicate, recruit operatives and plan attacks; such tools were not available when the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, passed nearly 30 years ago.
July 30, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists.
“This law is badly out of date,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.
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