Warrantless Wiretaps Unlikely to Be OK'd

Saturday November 11, 2006 12:31 PM

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By LAURIE KELLMAN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation aimed at President Bush's once-secret program for wiretapping U.S.-foreign phone calls and computer traffic of suspected terrorists without warrants shows all the signs of not moving ahead, notwithstanding President Bush's request this week that a lame-duck Congress give it to him.

Senate Democrats, emboldened by Election Day wins that put them in control of Congress as of January, say they would rather wait until next year to look at the issue. ``I can't say that we won't do it, but there's no guarantee that we're going spend a lot of time on controversial measures,'' Democratic Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois said Thursday.