Times Headline:
Gore is sharply critical of Bush Policy on Surveillance
"By VIKAS BAJAJ
Published: January 16, 2006
Former Vice President Al Gore said today that recent revelations that the Bush administration monitored domestic telephone conversations without obtaining warrants "virtually compels the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and persistently." "
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"Mr. Gore, who since leaving the political stage in 2001 has recast himself as a professor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, acknowledged that the threat posed by terrorists remains grave. But he suggested that the Bush administration and its supporters in Congress were being disingenuous in using the threat as a pretext to amass power for the executive branch."
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" "Is America in more danger now than when we faced worldwide fascism on the march - when our fathers fought and won two World Wars simultaneously?" he said. "It is simply an insult those who came before us and sacrificed so much on our behalf to imply that we have more to be fearful of than they." "
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