There seems to be a lot of pressure for them to follow the wrong path (I guess this is their wrong headed approach to appease everyone). We must apply pressure that they choose the right one.
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During the presidential campaign, candidates from both parties will warn of the risk of another terrorist attack on this country. Americans should insist that they also explain how they will repair the damage President Bush has done to America’s intelligence-gathering capabilities in the name of fighting terrorism.
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Congress certainly has not done the job. For six years, it stood by mutely or actively approved as President Bush’s team cooked the books to justify war, drew the nation’s electronic spies into illegal wiretapping and turned intelligence agents and uniformed soldiers into torturers at outlaw prisons.
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Now, with the opposition party in control on Capitol Hill, lawmakers have a chance to start setting right some wrongs in these areas. But there are disturbing signs that they will once again fail to do what is needed.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/opinion/14fri1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin