Nadler Questions Surveillance Legality

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) demanded that Attorney General Gonzales appoint a special counsel to investigate the President's apparent violation of law in asking the National Security Agency to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans' international phone calls.

In a letter to the Attorney General, Nadler pointed to the language in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that prohibits electronic surveillance without warrant of any communication "to which a United States person is a party."

Full text of Congressman Nadler's letter to Attorney General Gonzales