Letters to the Editor: Bush and Congress serve up a surveillance law

The Boston Globe responds today to Congress' decision to allow warrantless wiretaps of American citizens, in its editorial All Tapped Out on Civil Liberties.

The Globe also printed several letters to the editor about the issue in a section entitled Bush and Congress Serve Up a Surveillance Law. It includes a letter by Nancy Murray, Director of Education for the ACLU of Massachusetts, as well as from Daniel E. Speers, a telecommunications expert, who warns, "in passing the Protect America Act of 2007... Congress has authorized the clandestine wiretapping of all Americans and all calls and communications to and from anywhere, whether private or commercial."