Amos,

Congress doesn't have to grow a new spine here for this battle qwas allrerady fought and won by Congress a long, long time ago... It's called FISA and it was foungt and wond precisely because of the the kind of spying on American citizens that was conducted during the the J. Edgar Hoover years...

Now mind you, this report wasn't something that was cooked up by Edwards Kennedy but one that comes from an unbiased organization, the Congressional Research Service, which acts as a resorce for Congress...

In the CRS is the following quote: "It appears unlikely that a court would hold that Congress has espressly or impliedly authorized the NSA electronic surveillance operations here"...

Hmmmmmmm???

Bobert