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Possible White House Deal on NSA Secret Surveillance

The White House has conditionally agreed to a court review of its controversial eavesdropping program, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday. Specter said President Bush has agreed to sign legislation that would authorize the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to review the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's most high-profile monitoring operations.

White House Accepts Review on Eavesdropping, Specter Says, Associated Press, July 13, 2006.