Healsoseized theopportunityto urgetheCongress to actsoon on changes to theForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceact, which dates from the 1970s, predatingcell phonesandtheInternet.
Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, seized on the report as political ammunition against the Bush administration.
In particular, Mr. Faizi said, Mr. Karzai raised the issue of an engineering student who, he said, had been seized illegally at Kandahar University by an Afghan militia working for the Central Intelligence Agency.