Specter’s Judiciary Committee Oversight Of Illegal NSA Wiretapping? Nevermind.

Brian Zick

Anne Marie Squeo for the WSJ reports "Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter deferred a decision about whether to force executives from three telecom companies to testify about their involvement in the National Security Agency’s terrorist-surveillance program. His decision came as a total surprise to Democrats on the committee, leading Illinois Democrat Richard Durbin to suggest Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, had succumbed to a 'June swoon.'"

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