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January 26th, 2006

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White House Rebuffed 2002 Effort to Relax FISA Standards The Bush Administration rejected a Congressional initiative in 2002 that would have lowered the legal threshold for conducting surveillance of non-US persons under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from "probable cause" that the target is a terrorist or agent of a foreign power to "reasonable suspicion." http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012506B.shtml