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Wed Aug-01-07 11:49 AM
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51. Spy chief backs up Gonzales testimony

Spy chief backs up Gonzales testimony
August 1, 2007
BY LAURIE KELLMAN and LARA JAKES JORDAN - ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070801/NEWS07/708010350/1001/NEWS

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush's spy chief sought to defend Attorney General Alberto Gonzales against charges of lying to Congress in a statement Tuesday that hinges on when the government's terrorist surveillance program got its name......

The reason presented for Gonzales' claim: The terrorist surveillance program wasn't given that name by the administration until 2006, long after his effort to get then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to endorse it.

"I understand that the phrase 'Terrorist Surveillance Program' was not used prior to 2006 to refer to the activities authorized by the president," Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell wrote in a letter to Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa........

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