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Article: VOA NEWS: BUSH URGES CONGRESS TO MODERNIZE LAW TO MONITOR SUSPECTED TERRORISTS
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 28, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By William Ide President Bush is urging Congress to quickly amend a law on foreign surveillance that he says is "badly out of date." Mr. Bush says that at a time of heightened alert to prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, intelligence professionals need a more modern law to help them effectively assess those threats. VOA's William Ide has more from Washington.
In his weekly radio address, Mr. Bush appealed to Congress to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The president says he wants Congress to make the changes before it breaks for summer recess next month.
He says the key problem is that FISA was written into law ...