Focus (Forum & Focus)
Oct. 10, 2007
Amnesty for Telecom Firms' Surveillance Undermines Separation of Powers
Forum Column - By Kurt Opsahl - A Bush administration proposal to turn a blind eye toward the complicity of companies like AT&T and Verizon in monitoring the phone calls of American citizens threatens to undermine the fundamental constitutional relationship between the executive and legislative branches.
By Kurt Opsahl
For at least six years, President Bush has authorized the National Security Agency to conduct dragnet surveillance on our domestic telecommunications networks, working with the telephone companies to vacuum up the private communications of millions of ordinary Americans without warrants or other meaningful oversight.
Jack Goldsmith, former head of the Departmen...
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