On the December 22 broadcast of CBS' The Early Show, CBS News national correspondent Thalia Assuras misrepresented a quote from Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), falsely reporting that Harmon expressed "support" for President Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program. Assuras claimed that Harman called Bush's recently revealed program "essential to U.S. national security." Harman did, in fact, state in her December 21 press conference that "a highly classified NSA foreign collection program" about which she had been "briefed since 2003" is "essential to U.S. national security." But as Media Matters for America has documented, Harman added that she is "deeply concerned by reports that this program in fact goes far beyond the measures to target Al Qaeda about which I was briefed."
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