U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., asked Congress' investigative arm this week to examine the Bush administration's new antiterrorism laws, the Associated Press reported.
The legislators said they are concerned the new laws might undermine civil liberties. Feingold was the only senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act and Conyers was one of 66 representatives who voted against it.
They asked the General Accounting Office to review Bush's order to create military tribunals for suspected foreign terrorists, regulation by the Bureau of Prisons to allow eavesdropping on lawyer-client conversations for certain detainees, the detention of hundreds of people after Sept. 11, and Attorney General John Ashcroft's request for state and local law enforcements to interview 5,000 immigrants.
