Swedish officials want to spy on e-mails

Sweden's government presented a contentious plan Thursday to allow a defense intelligence agency monitor e-mail traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders without a court order. The government insists only a fraction of the electronic communication will be affected, but critics worry that the program, designed to combat terrorism and other threats to national security, is too far-reaching. Their concerns resemble criticism of a U.S. surveillance program launched in 2001 that monitors international phone calls and e-mails to or from the United States involving people suspected by the government of having terrorist links.The American Civil Liberties Union sued the National Security Agency last year on behalf of journalists, scholars and lawyers who say the surveillance has made it difficult for them to do their jobs because the