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An invasion of privacy

Congress is poised to pass legislation this week that would push aside privacy rights guaranteed in the Constitution and set the stage for virtually unregulated eavesdropping of international telephone calls. The legislation would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow the government to bypass a special court set up in 1978 to assess requests for wiretaps by simply declaring that the tap is needed for national security. Legislators should reject this unwarranted expansion of government powers.

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