Arlen Specter: “I neither agree nor disagree. I do not know. As I said more extensively in the body of my comments, I do not have any…”

“I neither agree nor disagree. I do not know. As I said more extensively in the body of my comments, I do not have any basis for knowing, because I do not know what the program does. I think it may be that the program could be structured as going after only al- Qaida conversations. And I would like to see some proof of that. Quite frankly, I would like to see some proof that they have reasonable grounds to think one party or the other is al-Qaida. That is in the body of Senator Feingold's whereas clauses. It may be that they have been able to take a limited amount of information, destroying the rest, and that it has produced very important results with a minimal incursion. I do not know the answers to those questions. But I certainly think you ought not castigate the President as a criminal until you do know the answers to those questions.”