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  • Friday, July 27, 2007 08:20 PM

    Embargo, Shmembargo

    It's Saturday in India.

    George Bush calls for easier wiretap rules

    28 Jul 2007, 0415 hrs IST ,AFP

    WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush on Saturday called for Congress to revise a US security law in order to ease restrictions on the government's secret communications surveillance of terror suspects. Amid furor over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's handling of the government's secret warrantless wiretap program, Bush urged legislators to pass the update of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) proposed in April....

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