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WASHINGTON - The Democratic-led US Congress has yielded to President George W Bush and approved legislation to temporarily expand government's power to conduct electronic surveillance without a court order.
Civil liberties groups charged the measure would create a broad net that would sweep up law-abiding US citizens. But the House of Representatives gave its concurrence to the bill, a day after it won Senate approval, amid warnings of possible additional attacks on the United States.
- REUTERS
