The Daily News, Jacksonville NC: "It's not a giant step toward accountability and respect for privacy, but the Bush administration has agreed to allow select members of Congress access to documents concerning a controversial National Security Agency's electronic surveillance program. For five years this program allowed the NSA to perform surveillance on Americans suspected of being in contact with al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations outside the country without getting a warrant from a special court created by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Although that law declared that using the special FISA court was the only way U.S. residents could be included in such surveillance, the president claimed he had sufficient independent authority.
A couple of weeks ago the administration announced that it had worked out ways to continue the program using the FISA court."
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