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The article presents the statement of U.S. President George W. Bush that reflects that he reads newspapers. In 2003 Bush said in an interview with Brit Hume on Fox TV that he hardly read a newspaper. But in his final news conference of 2006 he referred about some information he got from newspaper. On commenting on the news that Vice President of the U.S. Richard B. Cheney would be called testify in the CIA leak case Bush said that he read about it in newspaper.

The article reports that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush offered its fullest defense to date of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying that authorization from Congress to deter terrorist attacks "places the president at the zenith of his powers." According to the author, the Bush administration released 42-page legal analysis that included scholarly papers and court cases. Comments regarding the issue from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney are reviewed.