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Bush-era GOP Surveillance Backers Blast RNC Resolution
• http://news.antiwar.com, Jason DitzThe letter opens by claiming the resolution’s criticism of telephone metadata collection and surveillance of Americans amount to “errors,” claiming neither of those things is even happening, and accuses the RNC of trying to make it a “partisan issue.”
The Obama Administration has often responded to leaks about the bulk surveillance by insisting that the reports, backed up by official documents themselves leaked to the public, are “false,” and often keeps denying them long after it’s been proven that they exist. The Bush-era letter seems to be following that tack, despite it being resoundingly unsuccessful.