[WVNan]

"Even if the assertion was a hoax, it did not detract from Kennedy's broader point that the Bush administration has gone too far in engaging in surveillance."

Oh groan.......pull my hair out....Agggggghhhh! I'm so sick of this..."It matters not whether it's true or not, it's the seriousness of the charge," stuff. How DO they get away with it?

[purpleland]

Kennedy aide said, and Kennedy needs a great deal of aid in the way of *Depends* for his verbal diarrhea:
"Even if the assertion was a hoax, it did not detract from [the] broader point..."

Propaganda spin from the neoMarxist activist manual of quick retorts. A prime example of the pathological thought process of the leftist mindset: lie, deny and equivocate.