Bush Official Defends Surveillance

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WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida is the leading terrorism threat to the United States followed by the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, the nation's intelligence chief said Thursday in a forum that turned into a debate on government eavesdropping.

National Intelligence Director John Negroponte tried to focus on terrorist threats, but lawmakers repeatedly returned to the uproar surrounding the National Security Agency's surveillance program.

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Bush Official Defends Surveillance

West Virginia Sen. Jay Rocke-feller, the Intelligence Committee's senior Democrat, called the operations the largest NSA program within the United States in history. He accused the Bush administration of using the program politically while keepi...

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