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Thursday, February 09, 2006

Parsing words at the Spy Hearings

Here's part of the interchange at the domestic surveillance hearings:

KOHL: Just to go back to what Senator Biden and then Senator Kyl referred to about Al Qaida-to-Al Qaida within the country, you're saying we do not get involved in those calls...

GONZALES: Not under the program in which I'm testifying, that's right.

(CROSSTALK)

KOHL: It seems to me that you need to tell us a little bit more because to those of us who are listening, that's incomprehensible. If you would go Al Qaida-to-Al Qaida outside the country -- domestic- outside the country but you would not intrude into Al Qaida-to-Al Qaida within the country -- you are very smart, so are we, and to those of us who are interacting here today, there's something that unfathomable about that remark.

snip

KOHL: And if there's some criticism, he'll take the criticism.And yet you're saying Al Qaida-to-Al Qaida within the country is beyond the bounds?


GONZALES: Sir, it is beyond the bound of the program which I'm testifying about today.

Now, it seems pretty clear to me that implies there is another "program," which the President hasn't admitted, where the government does snoop on calls within the United States. Of course, I've suspected this all along, but this is really getting pretty creepy. How many other programs may there be? The program to snoop on Democrats? The program to snoop on war protesters? The program to stalk pretty women? Where might it end?

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