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Views are mixed on domestic spying

Specialists doubt legality; some defend war footing

By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / March 1, 2006

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WASHINGTON -- Several legal specialists told a Senate committee yesterday that President Bush's domestic spying program is ''blatantly illegal" and that it could set a troubling precedent that allows wartime presidents to break laws freely in the name of national security. (Full article: 580 words)

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