US judge concerned by Bush's surveillance program
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US Justice Department lawyer has warned the presiding judge of a secret surveillance court that information obtained through a domestic wiretap program may have been improperly used to obtain warrants in the court.
Citing two unnamed sources, the Washington Post reported Thursday that the revelations infuriated US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who had expressed serious doubts about whether the warrantless monitoring of phone calls and e-mails ordered by President George W. Bush was legal.
Both Kollar-Kotelly and her predecessor, Royce Lamberth, had insisted that no information obtained this way be used to gain warrants from their court, and both had been assured by administration officials it would never happen, the report said.
The two heads of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court were the only judges in the country briefed by the administration on Bush's program, The Post said.
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