That must mean judicial control of interception warrants, as proposed by David Anderson QC, the government's independent adviser on terror laws.
Blum said efforts to bring the others to Spain are essentially at a "stalemate" because of questions by Salvadoran authorities about international warrants, as well as El Salvador's amnesty law for the war that ended in 1992.
From a ratings standpoint, the news was perhaps not a surprise, but its timing was unfortunate, as the show, like its political late-night brethren, was in the midst of covering an election that warrants as much skewering as possible.
Justice Department officials say that maintaining the temporary secrecy of some warrants, as has been done in 47 cases, is essential to investigating sensitive terrorist cases and that the law only formalized existing practices.
No 1, when the Founding Fathers wrote the fourth amendment, they didn't say: It's OK to issue general warrants, as long as you have rules for when you're allowed to look at the papers you seize.
Other law enforcement officials said documentary evidence gathered through search warrants, as well as Mr. Durrani's own history and the Iranian government's keen interest in F-5 fighter jet parts, were pointing the investigation increasingly toward Iran.
The New York Times reported in December 2005 that President George W. Bush had directed the N.S.A. to conduct electronic surveillance of Americans without obtaining warrants, as required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Government officials say the cross-border surveillance was authorized by a 2008 law, the FISA Amendments Act, in which Congress approved eavesdropping on domestic soil without warrants as long as the "target" was a noncitizen abroad.
Besides Mr. Roman-Martinez, the Times investigation led to Gerard Toolin, 46, of Walterboro, S.C., who is a fugitive from the Rhode Island police and has two outstanding felony warrants as well as a misdemeanor warrant.
Indeed, the Guardian previously published top secret documents disproving the claims of NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander that the agency is incapable of stating how many Americans are having their calls and emails invaded without warrants, as well as the oft-repeated claim from President Barack Obama that the NSA is not listening in on Americans' calls without warrants.
Warrants as broad as some of those from which the National Security Agency and others have benefited in the past could allow access to all stored photos taken in a particular place and time.Different countries will react to this in different ways.
