Thursday, September 20, 2007

Republicans pushed 'bogus' terror threat to expand FISA, lawmaker says

"That specific intelligence claim (about a pending attack on the US Capitol), it turned out, was bogus; the intelligence agencies knew that," Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) said Wednesday. However, lawmakers did not learn of the claim's unreliability until "the day" they approved President Bush's request to dramatically expand his FISA powers in August.

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