Critics Slam NSA Spy Mongers for Exploiting Intelligence
Warnings  US officials banking on terror threat to build
justification for NSA spying; civil liberties advocates call
foul  - Sarah Lazare, staff writer  As US embassies remain
closed across the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia in
response to a reported terror threat, critics are blasting
politicians for exploiting recent State Department warnings to
build the case that vast NSA spying is a necessary
protection. Sen. Saxy Chambliss (R-T.N.) appears on NBC's Meet
the Press Sunday (Photo: Meet the Press)  Critics slam the
cynical attempt to play to people's fears to silence debate over
widely unpopular NSA spying programs and beef up US military
presence across the world. The legitimacy of the data revealing
the alleged terror plot is not broadly coming under question,
but the way it is being used to build the political agenda of
expanding the US security and surveillance state is being hotly
contested.  While the media widely reported Monday t