WASHINGTON - President Bush has claimed some far-reaching powers for the executive branch in its prosecution of the war against global terrorism – but in the face of legal challenges and newly empowered Democrats, some of those powers slowly are being curtailed.
In the latest such move, the administration itself has decided to put the National Security Agency's secretive domestic spying program under judicial oversight. This program, under which the NSA monitored phone calls and e-mails between the United States and other countries when a participant was suspected of a link to terrorism, has until now operated without court-issued warrants.
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