Attorney General Lies To Congress

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Gonzales dismissed the senator Feingold's question about warrantless eavesdropping as a "hypothetical situation" during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January 2005.

Gonzales said that it was impossible to answer such a hypothetical question but that it was "not the policy or the agenda of this president" to authorize actions that conflict with existing law. He added that he would hope to alert Congress if the president ever chose to authorize warrantless surveillance, according to a transcript of the hearing.

In fact, the president did secretly authorize the National Security Agency to begin warrantless monitoring of calls and e-mails between the United States and other nations soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The program, publicly revealed in media reports last month, was unknown to Feingold and his staff at the time Feingold questioned Gonzales, according to a staff member.

Gonzales was White House counsel at the time the program began and has since acknowledged his role in trying to affirm the president's authority to launch the surveillance effort.

[Nepa]

the AG has a few more problems to deal with.

Abramoff case, spying loom over Gonzales

[Riddick]

I think you just hate Latinos. Racist.

[Roybert]

Not to hijack, but the Bush administration actually started wiretapping US citizens without warrants BEFORE September 11, 2001.

[Nepa]

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Not to hijack, but the Bush administration actually started wiretapping US citizens without warrants BEFORE September 11, 2001.

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Linky?

[Nepa]

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I think you just hate Latinos. Racist.

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I hated that guy that lost an election to a dead person does that make me anything?

[Myrtle]

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I think you just hate Latinos. Racist.

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I hated that guy that lost an election to a dead person does that make me anything?

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....a 'necrophobe', I guess?

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