President Bush Sees No Need for Law to Approve NSA Eavesdropping
President Bush declared again on Thursday that his administration's program for eavesdropping without warrants was well within existing law, and said that efforts in Congress to write legislation expressly giving him authority for such a program were unnecessary and dangerous. He reiterated that the program, which intercepts international phone calls and e-mail messages of people in the United States suspected by the government of having links to Al Qaeda, was crucial to national security, and declared that he had the constitutional authority in wartime to order it.
Bush Sees No Need for Law to Approve Eavesdropping, New York Times, January 27, 2006.
