On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:27:27 GMT, "Billary/2008"
<F#%K_Liberals@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Critics Buying Into Media Myths
>Bush Right to Stick to His Guns on NSA
So did Miniter write this himself? I find it hard to believe that
your writing skills are up to the task.
>
>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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