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If you've been listening to this show — or, er... any show for that matter — you'll know a little something about the NSA's wiretapping program. Basically, the program circumvented the FISA courts, enabling the agency to listen in on phone calls between folks inside the United States and people overseas — all without benefit of a warrant (faster and easier, they say). Well, the previously unauthorized program is now authorized, after it passed both in the House and the Senate, with the President signing it into law yesterday. We'll talk to a reporter to explain it all, as well as folks from Congress, both yeas and nays.