Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Following Fox, Time's Tumulty, Allen falsely reported Rep. Harman defended Bush's warrantless surveillance

An article in the January 9 edition of Time magazine by Karen Tumulty and Mike Allen misrepresented a December 21 statement by Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) by falsely claiming that she had defended President Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program. In fact, in her remarks, Harman explicitly expressed concern that the surveillance program "goes far beyond the measures to target Al Qaeda about which I was briefed." Media Matters for America has documented prior instances in which Harman's statement was similarly misrepresented, first on Fox News and then on CBS' The Early Show.
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