*Source: News.com (
http://news.com.com/FAQ+How+far+does...ag=nefd.lede)*
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Just before leaving town for a month's vacation, a divided U.S. Congress acceded to President George Bush's requests for expanded Internet and telephone surveillance powers.
Over strong objections from civil liberties groups and many Democrats, legislators voted over the weekend to temporarily rewrite a 1978 wiretapping law that the Bush administration claimed was hindering antiterrorism investigations.
To help explain what the Protect America Act of 2007 (
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.01927:) means, CNET News.com has prepared the following Frequently Asked Questions, or FAQ list.
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