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Deal on spy program in works

Bill would let court approve wiretaps

By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / February 28, 2006

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, a leading Republican critic of President Bush's domestic spying program, has drafted a bill that would exempt the once-secret surveillance program from a 1978 statute that requires warrants. (Full article: 725 words)

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