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"Domestic Surveillance" Ad Nauseum

Well, there they go again:

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines yesterday to reject a Democratic proposal to investigate the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program and instead approved establishing, with White House approval, a seven-member panel to oversee the effort.

But it isn't a "domestic surveillance program." It's international surveillance - interception of communications with suspected al Qaeda contacts overseas. Walter Pincus and his editors know that. But "domestic surveillance" sounds worse, so they continue to use it. It's propaganda, not journalism.



posted by: The Editors @ 8:51 am March 8, 2006


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