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A temporary wiretapping measure expired last month.

The House approved a wiretapping measure of its own last month that did not include immunity.

The idea was to make Mr. Obama rethink his decision to support the Bush administration's wiretapping measure.

Representative John Conyers Jr., the Michigan Democrat who leads the House Judiciary Committee, said the debate over the wiretapping measure "goes to the very core of who we are as a nation," and he said the House bill added needed civil liberties protections as checks against executive abuse.

This week, Italian news outlets reported that prosecutors were looking into allegations by a 17-year-old girl who said she had taken part in wild parties hosted by Mr. Berlusconi, while the government has been preoccupied with passing a law that would limit the publication by journalists of wiretaps, a measure widely seen as aimed at helping Mr. Berlusconi preserve his image.

Many of the pending lawsuits challenge the Bush administration's refusal to release legal arguments supporting antiterrorism measures, including the wiretapping of Americans in this country without a warrant and the detention and treatment of terrorism suspects.

While courts will retain the power to hear challenges to any restrictions on civil liberties that are part of the new laws, lawyers say the president's martial language and popular sentiment will prompt judges to defer to government officials in their reviews of such measures as expanding wiretapping efforts.

Profiling and other broad-brush measures like warrantless wiretapping may have some intuitive popular appeal but they have a historical track record of producing lousy results (as, apparently, does the NSA program).

It proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that all of the "extreme measures" -- like warrantless wiretapping, ridiculous and intrusive random airport screenings, ubiquitous security cameras, secret prisons and willingness to torture -- have done nothing but drain America's economy, sully the nation's global reputation and erode civil liberties.

Increased terrorism and anti-illegal immigrant hysteria threaten American lives, political chaos and increasing police-state measures such as the wiretapping of U.S. citizens and Arizona's recent immigration law.

Mr. Giuliani has studiously avoided criticizing the administration, not only on Iraq but also on some basic measures in fighting terrorism like wiretapping without warrants.