Bush, Senate head for showdown on domestic spying
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President George W. Bush headed toward a showdown with the Senate over his domestic spying program on Thursday after lawmakers approved subpoenas for documents the White House declared off-limits.
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The move would mark the most aggressive action yet by Congress in its oversight of the wiretapping program and could set the stage for a constitutional showdown over the separation of powers.
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With temporary spy law expansion set to expire Feb. 1, the Bush administration is ratcheting up pressure for a broader permanent replacement. Not so fast, say Democratic leaders.
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President George W. Bush's demand for immunity for telephone companies that participated in his warrantless domestic spying program won an initial vote on Monday in the Senate.
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This week's top-level spying spat hits on a legal gray area that may require new laws to resolve.
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called Monday for President Bush and his secretary of defense to personally reach out to opponents of intelligence reform.
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The FBI once regularly (and surreptitiously) broke into Americans' homes and offices. Now a Senate bill backed by President Bush seems to offer legal immunity to anyone who helps the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, or the NSA do just that.
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President Bush is trying to break an election-season deadlock with congressional Republicans over bills that would give the White House broad authority to monitor, interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects.
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The Bush administration, facing withering criticism over its temporary foreign intelligence wiretap law, has launched a campaign to assure Democratic lawmakers that the law will not result in domestic surveillance without a court order, and at the same time it has indicated that it is willing to...
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As debate continues over the legality of President Bush's domestic spying program, the administration pressed Congress Wednesday to ease Internet age surveillance restrictions.
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The Bush administration gave guarded support to several terrorist surveillance bills Wednesday as Congress took up the sensitive issue of how to give legal backing to the president's warrantless wiretapping.
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The Bush administration is working to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies who aid the N.S.A.âs warrantless eavesdropping program.
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President Bush, clashing with Congress on several fronts, tried to pressure lawmakers Tuesday into taking up what's left of his shrinking domestic agenda.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D - Vt.) railed today against fellow Democrat - Jay Rockefeller (D - W.V.) for, as he put it, "caving" to the wishes of President Bush. This followed an announcement this morning that senators on both sides of the aisle had reached an agreement with Mr. Bush on substitute language for amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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The Democratic-led U.S. Senate will approve President George W. Bush's demand that telephone companies that participated in his warrantless domestic spying program receive retroactive immunity from lawsuits, a top lawmaker predicted on Wednesday.
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The US Senate is to debate a motion of no-confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a close ally of President Bush.
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FORT MEADE, Maryland  - President George W. Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to expand the government's domestic spying powers permanently, saying a failure to do so would leave the country vulnerable to another terrorist attack.