WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) — A key adviser to Sen. John McCain says the Arizona Republican thinks warrantless wiretapping of international communications has constitutional approval.
In an online letter posted by National Review, Douglas Holtz-Eakin said McCain thinks the Constitution gives the president power to authorize the National Security Agency to monitor U.S. citizens’ international phone calls and e-mail without warrants, despite a federal law requiring court oversight, The New York Times reported Friday.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee thinks “neither the administration nor the telecoms need apologize for actions that most people … understand were constitutional and appropriate in the wake of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,” Holtz-Eakin wrote. More
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