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...could take the CIA to the end zone after he replaces the widely criticized Porter Goss, but what the Senators were really curious about was Hayden's tenure as head of the National Security Agency, when he was involved in the Bush Administration's programs that allowed warrantless intercepts of some domestic phone calls and a recently disclosed program that reportedly compiled the phone records of millions of Americans. And on those questions, the thin, balding Hayden, dressed in his Air Force uniform, appeared to follow the playbook of many administration officials testifying in front of Congress: say nothing...
...methods of eavesdropping - that critics describe as an encroachment on civil liberties. Last year, the Democrats tried to make renewal of the USA Patriot Act an issue, but in the end they buried their objections and passed a bill that Bush could sign. When the NSA's policy of warrantless eavesdropping on some domestic calls was revealed by The New York Times in December, Democrats along with many Republicans also screamed from the rafters, but the program proved popular with the public. Presidential advisers thought it was such a winner that they put it in Bush's State...
...Another point of contention for the Dems is the NSA's warrantless surveillance of al-Qaeda-linked phone numbers and addresses inside the U.S. Gen. Hayden began that super-secret program soon after the September 11 attacks. He explained the program in such no-nonsense terms-calling it "hot pursuit" of possible terrorists on U.S. soil-and was so clear in insisting that American civil liberties were respected that some credit Hayden with helping the White House turn the disclosure of the controversial program into a political plus. The question is whether it will play well enough the second time...
...last six months, the GOP has seemed to have nothing but lapses on that all-important front, from the deteriorating situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina, and the Dubai ports deal, to new revelations about the President's role in the leaking of pre-war intelligence, his warrantless wiretapping program and, last week, Congress' inability to pass a border security bill...
...With a bunch of different presidential candidates, governors, congressional leaders and Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, the party doesn't have one strong defining leader. And while Democrats may agree broadly, there are still major differences on tactics, such as the proposal to censure Bush over his warrantless spying program offered by Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold. That idea won little support among his fellow Democrats. "I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence," says Paul Begala, the veteran Democratic strategist. The anti-war left is so mad at Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman...