NSA acted on its own to expand surveillance
The National Security Agency acted on its own authority, without a formal directive from President Bush, to expand its domestic surveillance operations in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to declassified documents released Tuesday.
The NSA operation prompted questions from a leading Democrat, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, who said in an Oct. 11, 2001, letter to a top intelligence official that she was concerned about the agency’s legal authority to expand its domestic operations, the documents showed.
Pelosi‘s letter, declassified at her request, showed much earlier concerns among lawmakers about the agency’s domestic surveillance operations than had been previously known. Similar objections were expressed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., in a secret letter to Vice President Cheney nearly two years later.
Source: Chron.com.
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