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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 09:42 AM
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So, bring Gonzales back to explain his lies and swear him in this time
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Gonzales Seeks to Clarify Testimony on Spying
Extent of Eavesdropping May Go Beyond NSA Work

By Charles Babington and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, March 1, 2006; Page A08

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December.

In a letter yesterday to senators in which he asked to clarify his Feb. 6 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales also seemed to imply that the administration's original legal justification for the program was not as clear-cut as he indicated three weeks ago.

At that appearance, Gonzales confined his comments to the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, saying that President Bush had authorized it "and that is all that he has authorized."

But in yesterday's letter, Gonzales, citing that quote, wrote: "I did not and could not address . . . any other classified intelligence activities." Using the administration's term for the recently disclosed operation, he continued, "I was confining my remarks to the Terrorist Surveillance Program as described by the President, the legality of which was the subject" of the Feb. 6 hearing.

full report: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801587.html
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 09:46 AM
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1. Actually he is the one that needs to be sworn in
I watch the first and he was lying through his teath. obviously lying
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 09:52 AM
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2. They made it clear they won't do it.
It was a blatant in your face screw you power play. They will do it again, too. This whole gang needs to be charged with violating their oath of office or something like that when the opportunity arises. There has to be something addressing the malicious abuse of power, which, IMHO, is what we have been enduring for the past several years.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:09 AM
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5. exactly, we, I guess need to just keep on rattling our rep's cages
I don't know what else to do.
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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 09:53 AM
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3. Yesterday at the Hearing, Specter swore in all the panel participants
I could only think, what a hypocrite.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 09:56 AM
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4. Sen. Leahy accused the WH of "running roughshod over the Constitution. . .
. . . and hiding behind inflammatory rhetoric demanding Americans blindly trust every one of its decisions."

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200602/022806.html
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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:10 AM
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6. Here's audio of that hearing from yesterday
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