U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft speaks at the State Department in
Washington about the new expaneded investigative standards for
terrorism, November 18, 2002. A secretive federal appeals court said
Monday that the U.S. government has the right to use expanded powers to
wiretap terrorism suspects under a law adopted after the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

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