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WASHINGTON, July 25 (AP) — Documents indicate that eight Congressional leaders were briefed about the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program on the eve of its expiration in 2004, contradicting sworn Senate testimony on Tuesday by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.

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Commissioner Kelly also defended the Muslim surveillance program on the grounds that the Handschu Guidelines authorize the NYPD to "visit any place and attend any event that is open to the public".

WASHINGTON, March 29 — Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, introduced a bill Wednesday that would put lawsuits challenging the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program on a fast track to the Supreme Court.

There, he eventually confronted White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, who were trying to get the pancreatitis-stricken Ashcroft to renew a still secret and illegal surveillance program on Americans' electronic communications.

Before the disclosure of the Internet company surveillance program on Thursday, the White House and Congressional leaders defended the phone program, saying it was legal and necessary to protect national security.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore)., one of the most persistent critics of U.S. surveillance programs, on Sunday threatened to filibuster a reauthorization of the Patriot Act if it fails to include major reforms, including ending a controversial National Security Agency program that collects data on nearly every American's phone calls.

WASHINGTON — President Obama offered a robust defense of newly revealed surveillance programs on Friday as more classified secrets spilled into public, complicating a summit meeting with China's new president focused partly on human rights and cybersecurity.

Representative Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, also defended the surveillance programs on Sunday, saying that they were tightly monitored by Congress, the courts and the executive branch.

When the agency isn't facing accusations of groping passengers passing through its security checkpoints, it's under fire for conducting not-so-secret surveillance programs on innocent Americans.

At the same time as the U.K. seeks to legislation for greater data retention powers, Europe as a whole continues to move the other way — with the European Court of Justice last month invalidating the 15-year-old Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement between the EU and the US owing to concerns about the privacy impact of government mass surveillance programs on European's fundamental privacy rights.