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Impasse on Spying Could Lead to Tighter RulesBy ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: June 10, 2008
WASHINGTON — With Congress at an impasse over the government’s spy powers, Congressional and intelligence officials are bracing for the possibility that the government might have to revert to the old rules of terrorist surveillance, a situation that some officials predict could leave worrisome gaps in intelligence.
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But government and Congressional officials said in interviews that they saw it as a dangerous step backward. A return to the old rules, they said, would mean that government lawyers, analysts and linguists would once again have to prepare individual warrants, potentially thousands of them, for surveillance of terrorism targets overseas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/washington/10fisa.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Some very disturbing quotes in this crappy article, especially from disgusting Jay Rockefeller.
