Gore Assails Domestic Wiretapping Program -- WAPO

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011600526_pf.html

By LARRY MARGASAK
The Associated Press
Monday, January 16, 2006; 1:42 PM

-- WASHINGTON _Former Vice President Al Gore asserted Monday that President Bush "repeatedly and persistently" broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant and called for a federal investigation of the practice.

Speaking on Martin Luther King Jr.'s national holiday, the man who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush only after a ruling by the Supreme Court on a recount in Florida, called Bush's warrantless surveillance program "a threat to the very structure of our government." Gore charged that the program has ignored the checks and balances of the courts and Congress.

Gore said that Bush's actions _ which the president has defended as indispensable in the war against terrorism _ represented a "direct assault" on the special federal court that considers, and decides whether to authorize, administration requests to eavesdrop on Americans.

Gore said the concerns are especially important on King's birthday because the slain civil rights leader was among thousands of Americans whose private communications were intercepted by the U.S. government.

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1. that was a pretty good article, let's see how many papers pick it up n/t

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2. kick n/t