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WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2006 – President Bush yesterday called his terrorist surveillance plan a lawful, necessary step in the war against terrorism. Speaking at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., Bush said he made the move to allow the National Security Agency to listen in on calls to terrorists as a means of protecting the American people. Bush stressed that he acted to protect Americans. The authorization he gave was for the National Security Agency to intercept communications emanating between individuals inside the United States and outside the United States, when one of the numbers is "reasonably suspected to be...