Security issue kills domestic spying inquiry

AP | May 11 2006

WASHINGTON The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program.

The Justice Department says the National Security Agency has refused to grant its lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter.

The Justice Department announced its decision in a fax to New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey, whose office shared the statement with The Associated Press.

Hinchey is one of many House Democrats who have been highly critical of the eavesdropping program first revealed in December. He says lawmakers will push to find out who at the N-S-A denied the Justice Department lawyers security clearance.

The administration has vehemently defended the eavesdropping. It says the N-S-A's activities were narrowly targeted to intercept international calls and e-mails of Americans and others inside the U-S with suspected ties to the al-Qaida terror network.

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