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To: JohnM who wrote (7793)	12/22/2005 8:55:36 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542060

Spy Briefings Failed to Meet Legal Test, Lawmakers Say The more I read about this, the more I think this is the work of Dick Cheney.. George W. Bush is a hands off type of manager. He does not like details. He likes to delegate. Dick Cheney understands this all too well. He will not even wait to be delegated. He will take the initiative. George Bush was probably briefed in the same way they briefed some members of Congress. Except, Bush does not pay as close attention as say Jay Rockefeller and probably did not understand the full impact of the briefing. After all, the President gets briefed on a lot of stuff. That is why there is a video of Bush talking about a court order for all wiretaps, without exception, made long after these briefings. I don't think he was lying. The body language was not there for any kind of deception. He was quite emphatic. The Republican strategist are now scrambling to spin this. The playbook they sent out to McClellan, Steve Forbes, and others are not going to fly. David Brooks in today's NY Time came up with the excuse that the President had four choices to make and not one was completely good. David Brooks is a smart person, but what he wrote today was absolutely silly. Basically, the conclusion that anybody else would draw from his column is to say that because of the rapid advances in technology - Constitutional guarantees for privacy and freedom can no longer hold up. I mean talk about tortured logic. McCain should amend his anti torture legislation to include tortured logic.