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Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania revealed a bill that would allow the same secret court that OK's wiretaps under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to judge whether the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program is allowed under the Constitution.

The NSA program has been under fire since December, when The New York Times disclosed that the government was listening in -- without obtaining a court order -- on international phone calls, e-mails and other communications between people in the United States and people overseas suspected of having ties to terrorists.

Some legal scholars have said the program is an illegal and unwarranted intrusion on Americans' privacy, but the Bush administration has defended it as a necessary tool in the battle against the al Qaeda terrorist network.




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