It’s not over. Key passage from the article in the Times …
The administration said it had briefed the full House and Senate Intelligence Committees in closed sessions on its decision.
But Representative Heather A. Wilson, Republican of New Mexico, who serves on the Intelligence committee, disputed that, and some Congressional aides said staff members were briefed Friday without lawmakers present.
Ms. Wilson, who has scrutinized the program for the last year, said she believed the new approach relied on a blanket, âprogrammaticâ approval of the presidentâs surveillance program, rather than approval of individual warrants.
Administration officials âhave convinced a single judge in a secret session, in a nonadversarial session, to issue a court order to cover the presidentâs terrorism surveillance program,â Ms. Wilson said in a telephone interview. She said Congress needed to investigate further to determine how the program is run.
Is it all a sleight of hand?
