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White House Shifting Tactics in Surveillance Cases
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By Adam Liptak
The
New York Times
Friday 19 January 2007
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011907E.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/washington/19legal.html
In a four-paragraph letter on Wednesday announcing that the Bush administration had reversed its position and would submit its domestic surveillance program to judicial supervision, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales used one phrase three times. A secret court, he said, had fashioned a way to allow the program to be monitored by the judiciary without compromising the need for "speed and agility."
That phrase also captures, some critics say, the administration's moving-target litigation strategy, one that often seeks to change the terms of the debate just as a claim of executive authority is about to be tested in the courts or in Congress.
On Wednesday, the administration announced that an unnamed judge on the secret court, in a nonadversarial proceeding that apparently cannot be appealed, had issued orders that apparently both granted surveillance requests and set out some ground rules for how such requests would be handled.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/washington/19legal.html
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