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well the president's been very aggressive about we're only listening to
people talking to al qaeda
what the administration has failed to explain is if that's the case why didn't
you get a warrant when you need a warrant in the united states
or if you're doing it overseas you don't need a warrant so
so it leaves a lot of
suspicion that what's been reported in the paper is in fact true which is that
the program is much wider than that so so it's not just
it was the criticism
from the civil liberties standpoint
for one
is that
apparently
what the government has acknowledged is happening is not the only thing
that's happening because if that were it it would be very simple for them to
have complied with Fisa well we keep hearing these kind of code phrases you know from
from the attorney general and the other apologists for this program which is
which suggests that in fact
all they want you to think they're doing is going after al-qaeda
but the reality is they also are saying that
we may be
doing more
but we can't acknowledge that because it's highly classified
we don't admit that we're doing more but we don't rule it out
in fact i think the attorney general said recently
we're not going to rule out the idea that we're doing surveillance entirely within
the united states entirely within the united states
without a connection overseas so
what what's visible now or what's
what we believe is visible now
is maybe only the smallest part of a very large program and you know it's
it's a political game i think because
everyone
is of course supports the idea and the legality of wiretapping conversations
with al-qaed
and the question is are they wiretapping other kinds of conversations and they
refuse to answer that question
when there's a lot of evidence that apparently they are
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