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The other day, the American people saw George W. Bush once again addressing his critics in connection with the NSA’s surveillance program . Despite the fact that he has been accused of the worst of possible motives – of willfully and deliberately breaking the law to spy on his fellow citizens – the President tackled this and other gratuitous charges without a trace of anger or bitterness. A relative few presidents in this country’s history have endured the kind of vicious and spurious attacks that have been leveled against George Bush. Completely abandoning any sense of decorum or statesmanship, some...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2006 – President Bush yesterday called his terrorist surveillance plan a lawful, necessary step in the war against terrorism. Speaking at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., Bush said he made the move to allow the National Security Agency to listen in on calls to terrorists as a means of protecting the American people. Bush stressed that he acted to protect Americans. The authorization he gave was for the National Security Agency to intercept communications emanating between individuals inside the United States and outside the United States, when one of the numbers is "reasonably suspected to be...

President Bush said that as part of U.S. efforts to train Iraqi police, the recruits will receive training in human rights and ethics in an effort to prevent abusive behavior. Speaking January 23 at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, Bush said, “We've seen some problems about what it means to have lived in a society where people want to seek revenge.” Some Iraqi police have used their status and position “to take it out on others because of past grievances,” Bush said. “That's not acceptable to the United States of America, and it's not acceptable to most Iraqis either.”...

BUSH: Thanks for the warm welcome. Thanks for inviting me here to give the Landon Lecture. For those students who are here, I want you to know, I can remember what it was like to sit through lectures. I didn't particularly like it then.

President Bush gave a terrific speech at Kansas State yesterday. For one thing, he was very funny. His visibly high spirits suggest to me that he thinks events are moving his way. You can read the speech in its entirety, along with an entertaining question and answer session, here. This is what the President said about the NSA international surveillance program: I made the decision to do the following things because there's an enemy that still wants to harm the American people. What I'm talking about is the intercept of certain communications emanating between somebody inside the United States and...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Move over, Oprah. President Bush is making himself into television's newest talk show host by making audience participation a feature of his appearances. Bush has been taking questions from audience members in recent speeches, and the White House says none has been prescreened. The sessions are not open to the public, but instead limited to invited groups. It's a throwback to the folksy style on the campaign trail that helped him win re-election and a departure from the heavily scripted speeches that were the norm last year. And his answers have resulted in some revelations - both...

For Immediate ReleaseJanuary 22, 2006 Setting the Record Straight: Democrats Continue to Attack Terrorist Surveillance Program      Setting the Record Straight "The NSA's terrorist surveillance program is targeted at al Qaeda communications coming into or going out of the United States. It is a limited, hot pursuit effort by our intelligence community to detect and prevent attacks. Senate Democrats continue to engage in misleading and outlandish charges about this vital tool that helps us do exactly what the 9/11 Commission said we needed to do - connect the dots. It defies common sense for Democrats to now claim the administration is...

In President Bush's speech, during a question and answer session, an Iraqi woman took the microphone and thanked America and President Bush for liberating 27 million Iraqis. She said that she lost family members to the ruthless Saddam Hussein's reign of terror and two sisters are now members of the new Iraqi Parliament. The unidentified Iraqi woman blasted the naysayers and non-supporters (read: Democrats and loony left) for standing against such a correct decision to oust Saddam from power. When the President told her to tell her relatives in Parliament to form a Unity government with Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds,...

It's good to see the White House finally addressing the questions, concerns and political attacks involving the legality of the NSA warrantles wiretapping. In a piece titled, Setting the Record Straight: Democrats Continue to Attack Terrorist Surveillance Program, the Administration finally fights fire with facts: "The NSA's terrorist surveillance program is targeted at al Qaeda communications coming into or going out of the United States. It is a limited, hot pursuit effort by our intelligence community to detect and prevent attacks. Senate Democrats continue to engage in misleading and outlandish charges about this vital tool that helps us do exactly...

MANHATTAN, Kan. - President Bush on Monday rejected critics' assertion that he broke the law by authorizing domestic eavesdropping without a warrant, saying he was doing what Congress authorized him to do to protect Americans from terrorist attacks. With congressional hearings set to begin on this issue Feb. 6, Bush kicked his administration's new intensive public relations effort to win support for the program run by the National Security Agency. As part of that, he gave it a new label — the Terrorist Surveillance Program.Bush noted that hearings will open in Congress soon, and Sen. Pat Roberts (news, bio, voting...

Bush 'Amazed' People Say Eavesdropping Broke Law POSTED: 5:23 pm EST January 23, 2006 UPDATED: 6:19 pm EST January 23, 2006 MANHATTAN, Kan. -- President George W. Bush pushed back Monday at critics of his once-secret domestic spying effort, saying it should be termed a "terrorist surveillance program" and contending it has the backing of legal experts, key lawmakers and the Supreme Court. Several members of Congress from both parties have questioned whether the warrantless snooping is legal. That is because it bypasses a special federal court that, by law, must authorize eavesdropping on Americans and because the president provided...

The President and first lady spent the weekend at Camp David returning to the White House on Sunday On Sunday the White House Website put up an article counteracting the Democrats continued attack on the Terrorist Surveillance Program Details here Further details - setting the record straight Today the President discussed the global war on terror at Kansas State University and afterward held and question and answer session. President Discusses Global War on Terror at Kansas State University Whilst in Kansas the President telephoned the March for Life Participants President Calls "March for Life" Participants Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...

U.S. President George W. Bush speaks in front of soldiers who recently returned from Iraq at the Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, January 23, 2006. Bush made remarks on the War on Terror at the University. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

Pelosi Statement on President’s Speech on the War on Terror Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to President Bush’s speech on the war on terror at Kansas State University: “President Bush missed a critical opportunity today to explain why, more than four years after the 9/11 attacks, the American people are not as safe as they should be. “The 9/11 Commission’s final report card indicted the continued failure by the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress to meet the security needs of our nation and make Americans safer. “Security gaps at...

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