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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Shading the truth

LATimes:

Bush said Monday that members of Congress had been briefed in advance on the program, and that "what we did was fully authorized under the law."
... The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Monday that she and many of her colleagues on the panel were briefed on the program by Treasury Department officials only after the administration learned it would be exposed in the press.
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice) said that she did not learn about the transaction-monitoring program until last month, even though it had been in operation since shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Maybe when he said in advance he meant before its exposure. Or maybe when he said members of Congress he meant Pat Roberts and Peter King.

2 Comments:

  • At 7:31 AM, Blogger Don Elkins said…

    This entire things smells to high heaven...then the admin turns it into a campaign issue. Daily Show, MSNBC, pretty much everyone has whacked Bush/Cheney for their idiotic diatribes agains the Times. Also, highly hypocritical for a group of people invovled in leaking classified information about a certain female CIA agent...

     
  • At 8:29 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Can the thought police be far behind? Bush and Cheney's comments concerning the NYT's attempt to inform the American people of the administration's ongoing antics are ludicrous and I'd be laughing if they weren't so dangerous.

     

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