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Democrats in both the House and the Senate failed to pass competing measures on Friday that would have included tougher judicial checks and oversight on the eavesdropping powers.
It would restore certain judicial checks on wiretapping powers while plugging loopholes that the administration has cited in coverage of foreign targets.
The Court's invalidation of laws that restricted the ability of Guantánamo detainees to obtain a fair trial respected the principle that judicial checks on executive power are needed to prevent tyranny.
Clegg is calling on the home secretary to introduce government amendments in the upper house to meet the concerns of David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, about the lack of judicial checks on temporary exclusion orders.
"The absence of any obligation on the part of the officer to show a reasonable suspicion made it almost impossible to prove that the power had been improperly exercised," the judges said in describing the lack of judicial checks.
A18 Congress Debates Terror Laws Senior Justice Department officials opposed calls for stronger judicial checks on the government's use of foreign intelligence information, as Congress continued its debate over federal anti-terrorism powers.
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