Agency Seeks Greater Surveillance Power

By Walter Pincus / The Washington Post
Citing a "period of heightened threat" to the U.S. homeland, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell asked Congress to "act immediately" to make changes in current law to permit the interception of messages between terrorist targets overseas, which he said now requires burdensome court orders. In a July 25 letter made public yesterday, McConnell told the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), that he hopes Congress "will be able to act immediately . . . to provide the legislative changes needed to protect the nation in this period of heightened threat." Full story...

Posted by Editor at July 28, 2007 10:47 PM