Intel czar’s wiretap plans are ‘deeply troubling’

Michael Roston, rawstory.com

A proposal by President Bush’s new Director of National Intelligence to expand the intelligence community’s authority to wiretap individuals in pursuit of the administration’s”terrorist surveillance program” was called “deeply troubling” by a Democratic Congressman who promised his subcommittee would investigate the matter.

“I have been extremely concerned about even the legality of the Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program for a long time, so of course, a proposed expansion is deeply troubling,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties told RAW STORY in an exlcusive statement.

“Just when you thought they couldn’t do any more damage to the Constitution and Americans’ civil liberties, they come out with this?” he added.

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