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OfflineCatalysis
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White House Gives Details on Surveillance
    #5278470 - 02/08/06 05:13 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

White House Gives Details on Surveillance

By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer 40 minutes ago

After weeks of insisting it would not reveal details of its domestic eavesdropping, the White House reversed course Wednesday and provided a House committee with highly classified information about the program.

The White House has been under heavy pressure from lawmakers who wanted more information about the National Security Agency's monitoring. Democrats and many Republicans rejected the administration's implicit suggestion that they could not be trusted with national security secrets.

The shift came after Rep. Heather Wilson (news, bio, voting record), R-N.M., chairwoman of a House Intelligence Committee subcommittee, broke with the Bush administration and called for a full review of the NSA's program, along with legislative action to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

"I think we've had a tremendous impact today," Wilson said at a news conference as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Gen. Michael Hayden, the nation's No. 2 intelligence official, briefed the House panel on technical and tactical intelligence.

"I don't think the White House would have made the decision that it did had I not stood up and said, 'You must brief the Intelligence Committee,'" she said.

When asked what prompted the move to give lawmakers more details, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino the administration stated "from the beginning that we will work with members of Congress, and we will continue to do so regarding this vital national security program."

At least one Democrat left the four-hour House session saying he had a better understanding of legal and operational aspects of the anti-terrorist surveillance program being conducted without warrants but still had a number of questions.

"It's a different program than I was beginning to let myself believe," said Alabama Rep. Bud Cramer, the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee's oversight subcommittee.

"This may be a valuable program," Cramer said, adding that he didn't know if it was legal. "My direction of thinking was changed tremendously."

Still, Cramer said, some members remain angry and frustrated, and he didn't know why the White House waited so long to inform Congress of its actions.

Lawmakers leaving the briefing said it covered the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Justice Department papers outlining legal justifications for the operations, limited details on success stories and some highly sensitive details.

The White House has insisted that it has the legal authority to monitor terror-related international communications in cases in which one party to the call is in the United States.

For more than 50 days, senior officials have argued that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were within the law when they chose to brief only the eight lawmakers who lead the House and Senate and its intelligence committees.


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Re: White House Gives Details on Surveillance [Re: Catalysis]
    #5278870 - 02/08/06 07:13 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

This was a disastrous error by the administration.

Rather than holding firm, they caved to the whiners and alarmists, and it's only a matter of time before every last little detail covered in the supposedly highly classified briefing is in the news.

"Democrats and many Republicans rejected the administration's implicit suggestion that they could not be trusted with national security secrets."

Well, duh! That's because they can't be trusted with national security secrets.

Bad move on Bush's part. VERY bad move.




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Re: White House Gives Details on Surveillance [Re: Phred]
    #5278902 - 02/08/06 07:21 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Don't wig so quick, Phred. They only provided an intelligence commitee with some details. If the commitee leaks it will provide more strength to the argument that these idiots can't be trusted to keep quiet. I still half expect to see Jay Rockefeller in court. Kinda. Oh, be still, my hard.


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Re: White House Gives Details on Surveillance [Re: Phred]
    #5279955 - 02/08/06 10:57 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I thought Bud Cramer's comments were very interesting but it was what I expected. Most rational people realize that this program has nothing to do with domestic issues because the evidence would never hold up in court, nor would it even be presented in the first place. I am sure Bud is contacting his democratic colleagues as we speak and telling them that it is in the best interests of the party to not pursue this particular political avenue. The last thing the democrats need is for the real details of this program to come out. They have all been hoping that they could catch the government spying on Cindy Sheehan or something but Im pretty sure that this is not what they will find.


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