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Article: Spy story highlights presidential overreach.(COLUMNS)(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 13, 2006
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Christmas parties for board members can be uncomfortable. Generating real conversation among people who come from so many different backgrounds and walks of life is no small feat.
But not at the party this year.
At this Christmas party, everyone--whoever they were, wherever they were from--began talking about the latest breaking news story on the latest White House scandal. Surprisingly enough, the overall tone of the conversation was not argumentative. Instead, the general response was a kind of quiet dismay. Faulty intelligence, misinterpreted intelligence--exaggerated, insufficient, decades-old intelligence--was one thing. Spying on the American ...