E&P/AP: Attorney General Will Blame Media for 'Wrong' Spy Program Reports

[DeepModem Mom]

Attorney General Will Blame Media for 'Wrong' Spy Program Reports
By E&P Staff and The Associated Press


....The Bush administration will tell the Senate Monday that the National Security Agency's programme for terrorist surveillance has been badly distorted by media reports, and that the scheme is a strictly limited one aimed at al-Qaeda members and affiliated groups.

Meanwhile, Time magazine, saying it had obtained documents relating to Gonzales' testimony on Monday, revealed Sunday that the attorney-general will say that press accounts about the spy program "are in almost every case, in one way or another, misinformed, confused or wrong.

"Contrary to the speculation reflected in some media reporting, the terrorist surveillance programme is not a dragnet that sucks in all conversation and uses computer searches to pick out calls of interest," Mr Gonzales will say in response to questions raised by Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee. "No communications are intercepted unless first it is determined that one end of the call is outside of the country, and professional intelligence experts have probable cause that a part to the communication is a member or agent of al-Qaeda or an affiliated terrorist organisation."...


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001957568

[Kierkegaard]

1. Anyone else understand how you can acertain probable cause

without listening in first?

[democrat_patriot]

2. Or why in this circumstance you cannot

use FISA??

[Kierkegaard]

3. Good questions, both.

I'd like to hear the answers, but don't hold out much hope. Empty rhetoric, lies and excuses.

[mod mom]

4. OK MSM you better stand up to these thugs or else you'll be

brought up on espionage. They are threatening you.