Court backs government broadband wiretap access - Yahoo! News

Court backs government broadband wiretap access - Yahoo! News: "But the chief author of the 1994 wiretapping law, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), criticized the court's decision, saying Congress had deliberately excluded the Internet when it wrote the wiretap law.

'The court's expansion of (the wiretapping law) to cover the Internet is troubling, and it is not what Congress intended,' Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, said in a statement.

The ruling comes at a time when some lawmakers have voiced concern that the Bush administration's communications surveillance program violates civil liberties."