September 19, 2006
Senate Bill Would Sanctify Bush
By Susan Jones
A bill now pending in the Senate would make the Bush administration’s enemy wiretapping program more practical and flexible, removing all doubt about its legality. But that worries some of Bush’s fiercest critics.
According to one anti-Bush group, the bill “would pardon President Bush for breaking the law by illegally wiretapping innocent Americans without warrants.”
MoveOn.org’s political action committee has accused Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) of caving in to pressure when he introduced a bill that “justifies everything the president did.”
The group quotes Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) as saying that Specter’s bill would “immunize officials who have violated federal law by authorizing such illegal activities.”
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