The Daily Background

Today, President Bush made his customary weekly radio address. In it, he accused Democrats of endangering the nation delaying a bill which would rubber stamp the Administration’s warrantless wiretapping. Here’s part of a press release sent out this morning by the White House, which included a transcript of Bush’s address:

Apparently the White House thought better, and decided to remove the sentence which accused Democratically-controlled Congress of playing politics with Americans’ lives. Hours later the White House sent out a new, “corrected” press release which did not contain the accusation. Here is the relevant part of the new version of the same official press release, missing the critical sentence:

Update: An earlier version of this post suggested the bill which Democrats are not leaping to pass would not take effect until October. That is not correct: I was thinking of another bill which the President has accused Democrats of delaying at the detriment to national security– there’s just too many of them.

Update 2: CNN follows up on the story with more details.

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