Lying about spying

From Dan Froomkin today: … I wrote in yesterday’s column about the ABC News report that first broke the story. Here’s an excerpt from Brian Ross’s interview with Adrienne Kinne, one of the two linguists who went public. Ross: “But the law’s very specific, and President Bush has reassured Americans again and again.” Ross plays a clip from a 2006 Bush speech: “It’s a phone call of an al Qaeda, known al Qaeda suspect making a phone call into the United States.” Kinne: “Well, I would say that that is completely a lie. I would call it a lie because we were definitely listening to Americans who had nothing to do with terrorism.” Justin Rood writes for ABC News about the reaction from administration critics: “‘This outrageous episode is a reminder that government spying powers can be used to invade the most intimate thoughts of even... [read full story]