By SCOTT SHANE
Published: February 11, 2006
By The New York TimesWASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — A C.I.A. veteran who oversaw intelligence assessments about the Middle East from 2000 to 2005 on Friday accused the Bush administration of ignoring or distorting the prewar evidence on a broad range of issues related to Iraq in its effort to justify the American invasion of 2003.
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The stink of Bush’s lies about the so-called War on Terror is even beginning to choke Republicans:
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: February 11, 2006
The New York TimesWASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — When Representative Heather A. Wilson broke ranks with President Bush on Tuesday to declare her “serious concerns” about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking, if not saying.
In interviews over several days, Congressional Republicans have expressed growing doubts about the National Security Agency program to intercept international communications inside the United States without court warrants. A growing number of Republicans say the program appears to violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that created a court to oversee such surveillance, and are calling for revamping the FISA law.
Ms. Wilson and at least six other Republican lawmakers are openly skeptical about Mr. Bush’s assertion that he has the inherent authority to order the wiretaps and that Congress gave him the power to do so when it authorized him to use military force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
We will hear more about Rep. Wilson, I think. She’s an Air Force Academy grad, a veteran and a former intelligence officer who is in a hot race in a swing district against New Mexico’s sitting attorney general.
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