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Subject: NSA - Power Problems - Update - Part 3
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Continuation of article on NSA's power problems from The Baltimore
Sun.

Part 3 of 3 Parts

"...

The senator said his early priorities include getting more information
about the authorization that a secret national-security court provided
recently for the program, which had previously conducted warrantless
eavesdropping on conversations between the United States and overseas
if one party was believed to be linked to al-Qaida.

Last week, Bush announced that he had submitted the program to the
secret court and it had given the administration warrants for the
eavesdropping.

Rockefeller said the new court orders don't satisfy his concerns. His
committee is also examining whether the program provided unique
information that helped the government find terrorists, as
administration officials have claimed, a committee aide said.

Even though Rockefeller had been among a small cadre of lawmakers
updated on the program since its inception, he said he still does not
have enough information to know how Congress should respond to the
program or whether it has been effective.

'What they haven't told us is so overwhelmingly large,' he said, that
'you would laugh' at the meagerness of the information lawmakers have
been given.

Rockefeller said he had asked the administration for copies of
documents authorizing the program in 2001 and a Justice Department
analysis of why a warrant could not be used.

A committee aide said the panel also wants to see copies of orders
recently issued by the secret national security court that OK'd the
program, the government's application for warrants, and intelligence
reports provided to such agencies as the FBI and CIA. The committee
also wants to know whether those intelligence reports produced
valuable tips on terrorist activities.

'We can't get that information,' Rockefeller said. 'We need that
information. We deserve that information. By law, we have to have that
information.'

Rockefeller said he has already spoken with Democratic Senator Patrick
J. Leahy of Vermont, who chairs the Judiciary committee. The two
panels expect to produce legislation this year that would set new
guidelines designating the types of domestic surveillance that U.S.
intelligence agencies may, and may not, conduct.

siobha..._at_baltsun.com"

End of Part 3 of 3 Parts

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