Reply #5: What Alito said: [View All]

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from the AP article:
The release of the memo by the National Archives comes when
President Bush is under fire for secretly ordering domestic spying of suspected terrorists without a warrant. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has promised to question Alito about the administration's program.

The memo dealt with whether government officials should have blanket protection from lawsuits when authorizing wiretaps. "I do not question that the attorney general should have this immunity," Alito wrote. (emphasis mine) "But for tactical reasons, I would not raise the issue here."

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