Garrett misrepresented Lieberman quote on domestic wiretapping

SUMMARY: Fox News correspondent Major Garrett cropped a quote from Sen. Joseph Lieberman to present a misleading account of Lieberman's view of the Bush administration's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program. Garrett reported that Lieberman said he "supports the surveillance" and called it "a critically important program to the prevention of terrorist acts." But Garrett cut out a key part of Lieberman's statement, in which he said, "I don't believe that [the administration has] operated within the law as it exists."

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