{"id":230,"date":"2006-01-07T16:41:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T22:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-\r\n\r\nduhbya\/partisanship-spies-and-lies\/"},"modified":"2006-01-07T16:41:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T22:41:36","slug":"partisanship-spies-and-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/partisanship-spies-and-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Partisanship, Spies and Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush Assails Democrats Over Patriot Act<\/a>By Jim VandeHei<\/p>\n

President Bush accused Democrats yesterday of blocking a full reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act for political reasons, as the <\/p>\n

White House stepped up an aggressive campaign to defend the president’s terrorism-fighting authority.<\/p>\n

“For partisan reasons, in <\/p>\n

my mind, people have not stepped up,” Bush told reporters, with 19 federal prosecutors by his side. “The enemy has not gone away; <\/p>\n

they’re still there, and I expect Congress to understand that we’re still at war and they’ve got to give us the tools necessary to win <\/p>\n

this war.”<\/p>\n

White House spokesman Scott McClellan, speaking to reporters earlier in the day, said Senate Democrats are simply doing <\/p>\n

the bidding of liberal special interest groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposes the broad surveillance power <\/p>\n

authorized by the act. Democrats are trying to “appease” the ACLU “because they want to weaken and undermine the Patriot Act,” McClellan <\/p>\n

said. …<\/p>\n

Adopting campaign-style tactics, Bush and his aides plan to accuse Democrats of jeopardizing national security to <\/p>\n

further their political agenda, a tack that worked well for the White House in the 2002 and 2004 elections. But the political environment <\/p>\n

is different now, with Bush less popular and Democrats better organized in opposition.<\/p>\n

Secret Surveillance May Have Occurred Before Authorization<\/a> By <\/p>\n

Dafna Linzer<\/p>\n

Even before the White House formally authorized a secret program to spy on U.S. citizens without obtaining warrants, <\/p>\n

such eavesdropping was occurring and some of the information was being shared with the FBI, declassified correspondence and interviews <\/p>\n

with congressional and intelligence officials indicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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