久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

White House gives details on surveillance
(AP)
Updated: 2006-02-09 09:03

After weeks of insisting it would not reveal details of its eavesdropping without warrants, the White House reversed course Wednesday and provided a House committee with highly classified information about the operations.

The White House has been under heavy pressure from lawmakers who wanted more information about the National Security Agency's monitoring. Democrats and many Republicans rejected the administration's implicit suggestion that they could not be trusted with national security secrets.

The shift came after Rep. Heather Wilson, chairwoman of a House intelligence subcommittee that oversees the NSA, broke with the Bush administration and called for a full review of the NSA's program, along with legislative action to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

She and others also wanted the full House Intelligence Committee to be briefed on the program's operational details. Although the White House initially promised only information about the legal rationale for surveillance, administration officials broadened the scope Wednesday to include more sensitive details about how the program works.

"I think we've had a tremendous impact today," Wilson said at a news conference as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Gen. Michael Hayden, the nation's No. 2 intelligence official, briefed the full Intelligence Committee.

"I don't think the White House would have made the decision that it did had I not stood up and said, 'You must brief the Intelligence Committee,'" she said.

When asked what prompted the move to give lawmakers more details, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino the administration stated "from the beginning that we will work with members of Congress, and we will continue to do so regarding this vital national security program."

At least one Democrat left the four-hour House session saying he had a better understanding of legal and operational aspects of the anti-terrorist surveillance program, being conducted without warrants. But he said he still had a number of questions.

"It's a different program than I was beginning to let myself believe," said Alabama Rep. Bud Cramer, the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee's oversight subcommittee.

"This may be a valuable program," Cramer said, adding that he didn't know if it was legal. "My direction of thinking was changed tremendously."

Still, Cramer said, some members remain angry and frustrated, and he didn't know why the White House waited so long to inform Congress of its actions.

Lawmakers leaving the briefing said it covered the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Justice Department papers outlining legal justifications for the operations, limited details on success stories and some highly sensitive details.

The White House has insisted that it has the legal authority to monitor terror-related international communications in cases in which one party to the call is in the United States.

For more than 50 days, senior officials have argued that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were within the law when they chose to brief only the eight lawmakers who lead the House and Senate and its intelligence committees.

In a PBS interview Tuesday, Cheney said that if all 70 members of the House and Senate intelligence committees were briefed over the program's four years, "it's not a good way to keep a secret."

House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., one of the eight fully briefed, said that he still knows more about the program than the rest of the committee. But, he said, "there is very little left to the imagination" of those members who attended the briefing.

Said California Rep. Jane Harman, the panel's top Democrat: "The ice is melting, and we are making progress."

While Harman continues to support the program, she said she is still uncomfortable with the administration's legal justification. Harman believes the administration should have used the court processes set up under the FISA law and gotten warrants.

Wilson, Harman and other committee members want to hold hearings on that law to review whether it should be updated. Hoekstra said he was open to hearings on the law but said such a review should "nothing to do" with the president's program.



Annual severe winter season drill in South Korea
Muslim world protests over caricatures
Syrians protest over Mohammad cartoon
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Researchers predict modernizaton progress

 

   
 

China-Japan talks 'expect no breakthrough'

 

   
 

Income-tax threshold raised for foreigners

 

   
 

'Chen is a saboteur of peace'

 

   
 

New human case of bird flu found in Fujian

 

   
 

Cartoon protesters direct anger at US

 

   
  Cartoon protesters direct anger at US
   
  Islamic groups call for end to riots
   
  Haitians await results of elections
   
  Hamas expects to head new Palestinian govt
   
  DPRK-Japan talks conclude in Beijing without major progress
   
  Israel to hold on to main West Bank settlement blocs
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 中国美女乱淫免费看视频 | aa级毛片毛片免费观看久 | 亚洲第一狼人区 | 毛片在线播放网站 | 久久一本综合 | 日日碰日日操 | 欧美—级v免费大片 | 久久综合色88| 国产初高中生粉嫩无套第一次 | 一级欧美在线的视频 | 69凹凸国产成人精品视频 | 亚洲视频在线观看免费视频 | 亚洲欧美18v中文字幕高清 | 国产一区二区三区免费视频 | 亚洲美女黄视频 | 国产毛片不卡 | 日韩欧美国产高清在线观看 | 亚洲国产激情在线一区 | 91免费视频版 | 91亚洲国产| 亚洲成a人片 | 成年男女的免费视频网站 | 国产精品亲子乱子伦xxxx裸 | 美女黄18 | 免费久草 | 5x社区直接进入一区二区三区 | 亚洲国产第一区二区三区 | 国产精品免费一级在线观看 | 国产精品无码久久av | 亚欧美| 日本精品网 | 丝袜美腿在线不卡视频播放 | 很黄很暴力深夜爽爽无遮挡 | 精品国产90后在线观看 | 男人桶女人逼 | 成人免费在线视频网 | 色老头老太做爰视频在线观看 | 成年午夜性爽快免费视频不卡 | 欧美一级特黄高清免费 | 久久综合中文字幕一区二区 | 97免费视频观看 |