White House: ``is not confirming or denying'' the report by USA Today

[sabra]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=az0H13rDf8IA&refer=top_world_news

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White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said later the president ``is not confirming or denying'' the report by USA Today, which cited unnamed people familiar with the program.

Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, a member of the Intelligence Committee and the chamber's Republican leader when the program began, said he was briefed about the NSA's data collection. ``I knew about the program,'' Lott said today. He defended it, saying the U.S. needs ``to use modern technological tools'' to defeat terrorists.

[Supersedeas]

1. sounds to me like that probably did an end run around Quest with modern

technological tools

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Whenever they do that they are guilty as sin.

[saltpoint]

3. The Bush administration is already taking a powerful hit on this.

And it's going to go through the weekend and into the legislative arena. They aren't going to hear the end of it for some time.

Next week, Jon Stewart, David Letterman or other comics are going to put the wood to George Bush on this story.

He's at roughly 31% approval, and this is unlikely to give him much of a boost.

I've been stingy in voting for Dubya as worst president ever in some of the blog polls, feeling that Nixon or Buchanan or others really were worse, but this afternoon, I think my vote goes to Dubya.

[central scrutinizer]

4. Got wood?

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[saltpoint]

5. There he is! Board 'n all! LOL!