Kenneth Bass III helped craft 1978 surveillance act

A national security expert, he remained skeptical of domestic spying by the U.S.

By Patricia Sullivan / The Bulletin
May 3, 2009

WASHINGTON — Kenneth Bass III, the Justice Department official who helped write the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the federal government with the approval of a special court to spy on foreigners suspected of espionage in the United States, died of cancer Monday at....

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