Originally published February 23 2006
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman says surveillance program appears illegal
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Bush's warrantless surveillance program appears to be "in flat violation" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Hearings concerning the surveillance program will begin soon.
Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says President George W. Bush's warrantless surveillance program appears to be illegal.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Specter called the administration's legal reasoning "strained and unrealistic" and said the program appears to be "in flat violation" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Hearings into the surveillance program are scheduled to begin Monday on Capitol Hill.
Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency, defended the surveillance on ABC's "This Week" and the Fox News Network, the International Herald Tribune reported.
"It's about speed," General Hayden said in his ABC appearance.
"It's about hot pursuit of al-Qaida communications."
The Bush administration says the surveillance has been carefully monitored and targeted at individuals with known or strongly suspected terrorist ties.
But officials have also given different estimates of the amount of monitoring.
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