The NSA's no-longer-secret [a href="vny!://news.com.com/NSA+spying+comes+under+legal%2C+political+attack/2100-1028_3-6066123.html?tag=nefd.top"]surveillance program came under a two-pronged attack[/a] this week on both political and legal fronts. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania threatens to cut funding to NSA's spying program if President Bush's administration does not come clean on how it works.
Separately, two hearing dates have been set for a lawsuit that seeks to prove that AT&T illegally cooperated with the NSA and violated federal wiretapping laws in doing so. Sen. Specter emphasized that he doesn't want the issue to fade into the background, saying that he'd like to see 'public concern and public indignation build up.