The Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said he would call the phone companies to appear before the panel in pursuit of what had transpired.
"We're really flying blind on the subject and that's not a good way to approach the Fourth Amendment and the constitutional issues involving privacy," Specter said of domestic surveillance in general.
"I don't know enough about the details except that I am willing to find out because I'm not sure why it would be necessary to keep and have that kind of information," said House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Fox News Channel: "The idea of collecting millions or thousands of phone numbers, how does that fit into following the enemy?"
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See also Bush says U.S. Spying is Not Widespread NY Times
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from Huffington Post link: CNN's Cafferty:
Sen. Specter "May be all that's standing between us and a full blown dictatorship"
Watch this:
Newt Gingrich: "I'm not going to defend the indefensible."
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5/17/06 Specter caving?
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