Tag: Inpsector General
Posted on Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 12:32:17 AM EST
Tags: NSA Warrantless Surveillance, Inpsector General (all tags)
The good news is that Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine announced he will conduct an investigation into how the Justice Department used the information it received from Bush's warrantless, NSA electronic surveillance program. He has also mangaged to get security clearances for his investigators. The bad news is it "won't address whether the controversial program is an unconstitutional expansion of presidential power, as its critics and a federal judge in Detroit have charged."
The ACLU reports:
In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Glenn Fine, the Justice Department’s Inspector General, said that his office has "decided to open a program review that will examine the Department’s controls and use of information related to the program and the Department’s compliance with legal requirements governing the program."
Again, it's not enough. It won't address the legality of the program. As the ACLU points out:
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