Republican Rift Over Wiretapping Widens

REPUBLICAN RIFT OVER WIRETAPPING WIDENS
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Jonathan Weisman]
Deepening Republican divisions over the future of President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program may jeopardize GOP leaders' hopes of making terrorism surveillance legislation a centerpiece of their final legislative push this month. House and Senate Republican leaders plan to focus congressional attention almost exclusively on national security, hoping to draw clear distinctions between Republicans and Democrats ahead of the November elections. Topping the to-do list is passing legislation officially sanctioning the National Security Agency's secret wiretapping of suspected terrorist communications. The eavesdropping has been carried out without warrants since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A federal judge in Detroit recently ruled the program illegal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR200609...
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