Critics Buying Into Media Myths
Bush Right to Stick to His Guns on NSA
WA****NGTON, D.C. -- The New York Times has attacked President Bush for
allowing the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor the activity of
suspected terrorists. But investigative re****ter Richard Miniter shoots
back: "Surveillance of suspected terrorists is no more spying than police
staking out a crack house is spying." This attack by the Times is just the
latest media myth against the War on Terror, says Miniter, veteran
investigative re****ter and author of Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That
Undermine the War on Terror.
Furthermore, says Miniter, "The U.S. government is not 'spying' on
Americans. The NSA is only targeting people who have received a phone call
or an email from a known al Qaeda terrorist. People who merely oppose the
Bush administration and are not in contact with terrorist groups have not
had their phones tapped."
"Let's set the record straight: the Bush Administration is not violating
the
rights of Americans," said Miniter. "Very few of the 300 people targeted
for
surveillance by the NSA are actually U.S. citizens. The overwhelming
majority are what lawyers call 'U.S. persons,' a catchall term that
includes
legal and illegal residents of the United States."
The FBI and the CIA have been using similar surveillance techniques
against
mobsters and spies for the past 30 years. Following the 9/11 attacks,
these
two agencies set their sights on terrorists inside the United States. To
date, more than 600 suspects have been arrested and two attacks inside the
U.S. have been thwarted.
In his controversial new book, Miniter has gathered information from over
100 interviews with high-level sources around the globe and sifted through
the written record to expose media myths from the Left and the Right.
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Love Billary
Tampa, FL
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