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<\/a>By Aman Ali, The Hill<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

President Bush Saturday pressed Congress to update a security law that would ease restrictions on secret surveillance of terror suspects, a proposal that many Democrats and civil liberty groups are viewing with great suspicion. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bush said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was “badly out of date,” and Congress should pass the updates his administration proposed before it leaves for recess in August.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Every day that Congress puts off these reforms increases the danger to our nation,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. “Our intelligence community warns that under the current statute, we are missing a significant amount of foreign intelligence that we should be collecting to protect our country.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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