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Democrats Say They Never OK’d Wiretapping

Some Democrats say they never approved a domestic wiretapping program, undermining suggestions by

President Bush and his senior advisers that the plan was fully vetted in a series of congressional briefings. “I feel unable to fully evaluate, much less endorse, these activities,” West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, said in a handwritten letter to Vice President Dick Cheney in July 2003. “As you know, I am neither a technician nor an attorney.” Full Story