Bush defends spying, heads to NSA

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WASHINGTON - President Bush is expected to discuss U.S. strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan and defend his domestic spying program from critics in his speech Monday at Kansas State University.

The address is part of a coordinated White House effort to justify the surveillance program as a critical tool for monitoring terrorist groups, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Friday.

Later in the week, Bush will visit the National Security Agency, based at Fort Meade, Md., where intelligence officials have been authorized since 2001 to eavesdrop without warrants on the international phone calls and e-mails of people within the United States.

"The president will be talking about our efforts at home and abroad to prevail in the war on terrorism," McClellan said of the speech, part of the university's Landon Lecture series.

"I expect he'll touch on Afghanistan and Iraq and our strategy and talk about the important tools that we are using to save lives by disrupting plots, like the Patriot Act and the National Security Agency authorization," McClellan said.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/13673857.htm

Over here's where I shoot down the enemy terrorists with my predator drone, the new video game Dick got me. Spyin' on Americans is hard work, ya'll.

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1. Is the OBL tape part of the "WH coordinated effort"?

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3. rove on the town for a little pr . . .

prez rolls over to the nsa to dig up a little dirt on congress to use to suppress dissent before sotu . . .

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2. There has to be a saturation point with this crap.

I mean really - who believes the lies anymore? I know their game - "if you say it loud enough and often enough it becomes truth" - but there has to be a point where that tactic just doesn't work anymore. Argh.