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Update On The Decider's Illegal Spying On Americans  By The
Reverend Published: October 3, 2007   If there were the votes in
the Congress for impeachment, repeated violations of the fourth
amendment and FISA laws through eavesdropping on the
communications of Americans without a warrant, would be the
convicting charge.  Only four top officials at the Justice
Department were given access to details about a warrantless
surveillance program that Justice lawyers ultimately determined
was partially illegal, a former department lawyer testified
today.  Jack L. Goldsmith, former head of the Justice
Department's Office of Legal Counsel, told the Senate Judiciary
Committee that access to the surveillance program was so tightly
controlled that even the attorney general did not know all the
details.  Goldsmith also testified that the White House
initially resisted allowing then-Deputy Attorney General James
B. Comey to be briefed on the program at a time when t