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Activists on Right, GOP Lawmakers Divided on Spying
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Feb 08, 2006 12:26am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 7, 2006 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Privacy Concerns, Terror Fight at Odds
By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 7, 2006; Page A04
Despite President Bush's warnings that public challenges to his domestic surveillance program could help terrorists, congressional Republicans and conservative activists are split on the issue and are showing no signs of reconciling soon.
GOP lawmakers and political activists were nearly unanimous in backing Bush on his Supreme Court nominations and Iraq war policy, but they are divided on how to resolve the tension between two principles they hold dear: avoiding government intrusion into private lives, and combating terrorism. The rift became evident at yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into the surveillance program, and it may reemerge at Thursday's intelligence committee hearing.
Bush and his allies have tried to squelch criticisms by suggesting that it is virtually unpatriotic to question the program's legality.
"Our enemy is listening," Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales told the Judiciary Committee at the start of a day-long hearing into the National Security Agency's warrantless monitoring of Americans' phone calls and e-mails with foreign-based people suspected of terrorist ties. "And I cannot help but wonder if they aren't . . . smiling at the prospect that we might now disclose even more, or perhaps even unilaterally disarm ourselves of a key tool in the war on terror." |
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