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...drugs and alcohol in exchange for hastily completed canvases, often of poor quality. The message is worrying buyers as far afield as France. "'dreamtime artist hit by nightmare of sex and fraud'-did you see that in the paper?" asks Arts d'Australie gallery dealer St?phane Jacob over the phone from Paris. "It's really something that is affecting the credibility of Aboriginal art overseas...
...part because so little is known about the phone-call collection program, experts say they aren't entirely sure whether it is legal. The consensus seems to be that it probably does not violate the Fourth Amendment ban on illegal search and seizure, but it may run afoul of several statutes governing the privacy of telephone records. The three companies that turned over their customers' records--AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon, which combined carry roughly 80% of the nation's landline calls and half the wireless ones--all issued terse statements saying they valued their customers' privacy and did nothing...
Given the President's expansive view of his powers in fighting terrorism, the revelation has only fueled speculation as to what else the government may be doing. Attorney General Gonzales hinted in early April that the President may even have the power to order wiretaps on purely domestic phone calls without court approval. "I'm not going to rule it out," he told the House Judiciary Committee. Says Dale Carpenter, a constitutional-law expert at the University of Minnesota: "If the Administration claims literally bottomless Executive power to defend the country--and it has--then I think we can expect...
...that your book is out, are you going to disappear again? [Laughs.] I never really was trying to be this mysterious figure. During both campaigns, I was rather busy trying to get my job done. There was a flood of phone calls that Heather and I got from reporters. My reaction was, I have other things to worry about...
PATRICK LEAHY, Democratic Senator from Vermont, on reports that the National Security Agency has amassed the phone records of millions of U.S. homes and businesses since 9/11, in search of patterns that might lead to terrorist networks...