Bush Presses House for Surveillance Bill

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By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press
March 4, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Monday that telecommunications companies should be thanked, not sued, for helping the government conduct warrantless wiretapping in the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Senate version of a law to make it easier for the government to conduct domestic eavesdropping on suspected terrorists' phone calls and e-mails provides retroactive legal protection for telecommunications companies that wiretapped without court permission. The House version does not.

Bush says he will veto any bill without it, and he has kept up a drumbeat of events and remarks in recent weeks to press his point.

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