Milbank falsely suggested Barr was only attendee of conservative conference to criticize NSA spying program

SUMMARY: The Washington Post's Dana Milbank falsely suggested that former Rep. Bob Barr was the lone conservative critic of the National Security Agency's (NSA) warrantless domestic spying program to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Focusing largely on the negative reaction of CPAC attendees to Barr's criticism of the program, Milbank called Barr "the skunk at CPAC's party this year," while failing to report that David Keene, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, which sponsored CPAC, and another prominent conservative who spoke at the convention, Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist, have also criticized the warrantless surveillance program.

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