WASHINGTON -- The legal battle over the Bush administration's program of eavesdropping without warrants has never reached the Supreme Court.
One would have provided retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the security agency conduct eavesdropping without warrants.
Civil liberties advocates called the proposed oversight inadequate and the licensing of eavesdropping without warrants unnecessary and unwise.
Did agency officials volunteer to perform the eavesdropping without warrants, or did the White House order it over agency objections?
Fifty-three percent of the respondents said they supported eavesdropping without warrants "in order to reduce the threat of terrorism".
It permits eavesdropping without warrants on Americans' cross-border phone calls and e-mails so long as the surveillance is "targeted" at foreigners abroad.
It's eavesdropping without consequence — the Internet realizing its potential to build a room where everyone is present but only you know you're there.
They have shown no hesitation, even though Mr. Drake is not accused of disclosing the N.S.A.'s most contentious program, that of eavesdropping without warrants.
He tries to whisper, but he doesn't do a very good job of it — in any case, the others are eavesdropping without shame.
President Bush has asserted that he can authorize eavesdropping without court warrants on the international communications of Americans suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda.
It's eavesdropping without consequence the Internet realizing its potential to build a room where everyone is present but only you know you're there.
