On the December 21 editions of both Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson and Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle misrepresented remarks by Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) to falsely state that she agreed with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Pete Hoekstra's (R-MI) positive assessment of the Bush administration's congressional briefings on its use of domestic surveillance, without judicial oversight, on U.S. persons. By omitting a portion of Harman's statement, Angle indicated that she agreed with Hoekstra's assessment of the briefing sessions that "as we walked out in a bipartisan basis, we thought that this was essential and a necessary and the right thing to do to keep America safe." In fact, in her comments, Harman explicitly expressed concern that the surveillance program "goes far beyond the measures to target Al Qaeda about which I was briefed."
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