WP: Analysis: White House Tries to Spin Spying

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012501689.html

WASHINGTON -- President Bush and his top national security advisers are trying to change the debate _ and even the vocabulary _ about the National Security Agency's controversial electronic monitoring program.

Don't call it domestic spying, they say. It's a terrorist surveillance program.

Americans have been uneasy about the program since it was first disclosed last month. According to polls, slightly more than half think the government should first get a warrant before eavesdropping on people in the United States whose calls and e-mails the government believes involve al-Qaida.

Bush, along with the nation's top military intelligence officer and the attorney general, has made the case in a three-day pitch.

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(yes, I know he's spinning - but now the AP and WP? hmmm...)