With reference to the quote below, why not just say that the new legislation allows for the search of any persons who are not native U.S. citizens currently located within the U.S.?

Score -100 for the supposed referendum on the Bush administration that supposedly took place last November.

Quoted: Representative Silvestre Reyes, Democrat of Texas and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday that the bill the administration wanted would allow wiretapping without warrants as long as it was “concerning a person abroad.” As a result, Mr. Reyes said, the law could be construed as allowing any search inside the United States as long as the government claimed it “concerned” Al Qaeda.