(VT) Lawmakers oppose federal eavesdropping program

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Lawmakers oppose federal eavesdropping program

February 9, 2006

MONTPELIER, Vt. --Some Vermont lawmakers are denouncing President Bush's controversial surveillance program.

A nonbinding resolution signed by about 45 House members is calling on Vermont state agencies not to go along with the eavesdropping program unless they know that it complies with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

"The resolution ... is one means by which we can get a message out and go on the record," said Rep. Michael Fisher, D-Lincoln.

The National Security Agency has been monitoring terror-related international phone calls and e-mails when one party to the call is in the United States.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, including Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has been holding hearings on the program this week.


more...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/02/09/lawmakers_oppose_federal_eavesdropping_program/

[ProSense]

1. Also TSA condemns failed registry

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=369253&mesg_id=369253

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2. more states

Why can't more states challenge this with the supremely right court?

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5. kick

http://www.canofun.com/cof/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=17297

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3. US judge concerned by Bush's surveillance program

US judge concerned by Bush's surveillance program

1 hour, 42 minutes ago


WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US Justice Department lawyer has warned the presiding judge of a secret surveillance court that information obtained through a domestic wiretap program may have been improperly used to obtain warrants in the court.

Citing two unnamed sources, the Washington Post reported Thursday that the revelations infuriated US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who had expressed serious doubts about whether the warrantless monitoring of phone calls and e-mails ordered by President George W. Bush was legal.

Both Kollar-Kotelly and her predecessor, Royce Lamberth, had insisted that no information obtained this way be used to gain warrants from their court, and both had been assured by administration officials it would never happen, the report said.

The two heads of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court were the only judges in the country briefed by the administration on Bush's program, The Post said.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060209/pl_afp/usattacksintelligence_060209144653

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4. Green Mountain!

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