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AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Bush Isn't Spying on al Qaeda ... He's Spying on You

AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Bush Isn't Spying on al Qaeda ... He's Spying on You: "The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury when he parsed words about George W. Bush's warrantless surveillance program misses a larger point: the extraordinary secrecy surrounding these spying operations is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at the American people."

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