White House seen to use wiretaps as campaign asset

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White House seen to use wiretaps as campaign asset

RAW STORY
Published: January 22, 2006



"With Karl Rove's speech to national Republicans on Friday -- followed by a hard-hitting campaign of speeches and events this week -- the White House has effectively declared that it views its controversial secret surveillance program not as a political liability but as a tool: a way to attack Democrats and re-establish President Bush's standing after a difficult year," the NEW YORK TIMES' Adam Nagourney declares in a news analysis slotted for Monday page ones...

The piece is set to lay out a strategy that has been employed by the Bush campaign before -- to use what some might view as a liability and turn it into a political asset. The Bush campaign did this in 2004 with the President's troubled National Guard Service, questioning Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) on his own military credentials.

Nagourney writes: "Whether the White House can succeed depends very much, members of both parties say, on its success in framing the debate at a time when the country is torn between two very strong pulls: its historic aversion to governmental intrusion and its recently born fear of a terrorist attacks at home."

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[Ksec]

1. They have the arrogance to put torture in there also

The people of this country will be waiting to show their arrogance come 2006 and 08. The rethugs are history. Bet on it.

[raysr]

2. Swift Boat Bush

and all the other pukes running for office. Lie! I'm not kidding, lie, whatever it takes.

[f-bush]

3. This is part of what brought Nixon down

and if the Amercian people and their elected leaders have any balls, it will bring shrub down also!