New Signing Statement Sends Legal Mail Searches To The Dead Letter Office

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Posted to Politics on Sun Jan 07, 2007 at 11:05:05 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

Count Sen. Susan Collins of Maine among those who've raised objections to a signing statement filed just before Christmas by President Bush when he entered into law the obscure Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (HR 6407).

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine questioned Bush's controversial Dec. 20 "signing statement" in which he stated if there were an emergency he wouldn't need a warrant to open letters. The bill he signed into law that day, co-sponsored by Collins, requires search warrants for mail.

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