In Depth: You:ve Got Mail: Bush Administration Asserts It Has The Power To Open First-Class Mail Wit
NBC ID: ARN17R4YXV | Production Unit: Nightly News | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: NY-NN-20070104-0001 | Air Date(s): 01/04/2007 | Event Date(s): 01/04/2007Transcript
Event Date(s): 01/04/2007 | Event Location(s): Washington, DC | Description: INT MS: Mail speeds through sorting machine. MS: Letters fall onto conveyor. MS: Postal worker puts stack of mail into bin. EXT DAY CU: Letter carrier puts mail into mailbox on wall of house. MS: Letter carrier crosses lawn. INT MS: Hands take pile of mail from bin. In interview Center For National Security Studies' Kate Martin says "We have a president who continues to believe he's above the law; that as he can do as he please (sic); he can ignore the Congress; he can ignore the constitution." MS: Postal worker puts box on conveyor. MS: Mail falls onto computer. EXT DAY MS: Men in protective clothing outside building. GFX Pipe bomb (?) STILLS Gloved hands hold envelope inside protective lab box. President George W. Bush sits at table during bill-signing ceremony. GFX Document with super "For foreign intelligence collection " INT WASHINGTON, DC MS: Side view of White House spokesman Tony Snow at press conference. Snow says "What the signing statement indicates is what present law allows, in making it clear what the provisions are." EXT DAY WASHINGTON, DC MS: Capitol. INT MS: Postal worker sorts stacks of mail. INT WASHINGTON, DC MS: Bush signs law at desk then stands up and shakes hands with one of the men standing nearby. In interview Senator Susan Collins says "I was really surprised. There was absolutely nothing in the Postal Reform bill that in any way diminished or changed the privacy protections for domestic sealed mail." EXT DAY MS: Letter carrier hands mail to woman standing in doorway of home. MS: Postal worker empties street-corner mailbox. CU: Bin full of mail. MS: Letter carrier puts mail through slot in door. EXT DAY WASHINGTON, DC NBC's Pete Williams signs off on-camera from Washington as he stands next to a mailbox. a and c copies nat sot hit time 19:43:25