September 8, 2006

Bush Wants More Wiretap Power, But Congress Questions Need

President Bush urged Congress Thursday to give him "additional authority" to continue his administration's warrantless eavesdropping program. The speech was his latest effort in several days to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by framing the election-year national security debate to political and policy advantage. The president's appeal for congressional action to strengthen the legal underpinnings of the National Security Agency's surveillance program ran into roadblocks even as he spoke.

Bush Calls For Greater Wiretap Authority, Washington Post, September 8, 2006.