Mr. Rockefeller did so in July 2003, after he was first briefed about the eavesdropping effort; Ms. Pelosi has not identified the date of her objections, saying her letter remains classified.
The NSA is a key provider of information for the NCTC database, although officials refused to say how many names on the list are linked to the agency's controversial domestic eavesdropping effort.
We embarked on a national and international eavesdropping effort to track suspicious people and actions in a huge database.
His research provided the underpinnings for one of the most successful of American espionage efforts in the cold war, eavesdropping on the sounds made by Soviet submarines.
And why did Mr. Bush feel compelled to construct an outlaw eavesdropping operation — apart, that is, from his broader effort to expand presidential power and evade checks and balances?
The indictment charges that Mr. Scrushy used threats, bribes, surveillance and eavesdropping to intimidate his lieutenants into participating in an effort to inflate the company's profits by $2.74 billion from 1996 to 2002.
Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group in Washington, said the quandary posed by the N.S.A.'s efforts against encryption began with its dual role: eavesdropping on foreign communications while protecting American communications.
A1 President Bush declared again that his administration's program for eavesdropping without warrants was well within existing law, and said efforts in Congress to write legislation expressly giving him authority for such a program were unnecessary and dangerous.
It also sounds like the founders of Jugl have been eavesdropping on me and my wife and our persistently frustrating efforts to manage the calendar of children's activities and our own jobs.
In the nineties, new encryption software that could protect telephone conversations, faxes, and e-mails from unwarranted monitoring was coming on the market, but the programs could also block entirely legal efforts to eavesdrop on criminals or potential terrorists.
