Former CIA chief expresses doubts about NSA program (Woolsey)

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http://news.com.com/Former+CIA+chief+expresses+doubts+about+NSA+program/2100-1036_3-6037321.html

Former CIA chief expresses doubts about NSA program

WASHINGTON--A former CIA director on Thursday raised questions about an NSA terrorist surveillance program that has been monitoring phone calls and e-mails without a court's approval.

"There comes a point at which, when one is investigating individual Americans...it's necessary to go to a court, have the court weigh and balance the factors, and approve an in-depth investigation," said R. James Woolsey, a Clinton appointee who is now a vice president at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

The Bush administration has described the program as narrowly focused on communications in which at least one party is outside the United States or affiliated with Al Qaeda. But Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told senators at a marathon hearing on Monday that he couldn't assure them that the wiretapping doesn't inadvertently involve nonterrorists.

Speaking at an event here sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Woolsey said that despite those misgivings, he considered himself "somewhere around 75 percent in the administration's camp on this set of issues."

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1. Woolsey=PNAC.

Peace.

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2. "sponsored by the Heritage Foundation"

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3. "friends or friends of friends" 85,213 user registrations.

The Scooter Libby Legal Defense Trust hopes to raise $5 million
to $6 million, or more, said Barbara Comstock, a Republican
strategist and a member of the fund's steering committee.

The fund's steering committee includes a few Democrats and
several Republicans. Former Ambassador Mel Sembler is its chairman.

The other members include two former Republican presidential
candidates, Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes; three former
Republican senators, Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Spencer
Abraham of Michigan and Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming; and
former CIA Director James Woolsey.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5592291,00.html

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4. Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes

Comstock said the fund does not have to reveal the identities of
its donors under law.


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