Bush's authorization of eavesdropping in the U.S. to fight terrorism may make it more difficult to prosecute a range of cases, including illegal fund-raising and drug offenses, legal scholars say. Bush last week said he authorized a ``limited'' program of monitoring phone calls, e-mails and satellite communications without court approval, calling it vital to national security. The program, a response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, provides defense lawyers with an opening to challenge a variety of criminal charges, scholars say. ``If they'd been smart, they would have only used it to stop terrorist attacks from happening and not in prosecutions,'' said Michael Greenberger, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Health and Homeland Security in Baltimore. ``Defense lawyers are obviously quite alert to the fact that they've got to go back and look at this: whether their defendants were charged based on evidence illegally obtained.'' ...
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