Domestic surveillance questions [US Senate Judiciary Comm.]

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Domestic surveillance questions [US Senate Judiciary Comm.]

January 25, 2006 11:10:00 pm

Letter from Senator Arlen Specter to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales setting out questions to be addressed by the AG in scheduled US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on "Wartime executive Powers and the NSA's Surveillance Authority", January 24, 2006. Read the full text of the questions via FindLaw. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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