Alberto R. Gonzales Misled the Senate During his Confirmation Hearing
Writing by on Tuesday, 31 of January , 2006 at 7:16 am
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This may shock you, but someone in the Bush administration lied! I know I know, it is hard to fathom that an administration that has been nothing but truthful to the American people would allow a liar in its circle of integrity. The Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have lied his ass off when he was being confirmed last year. The Washington Post Picks it up from here. This may shock you, but someone in the Bush administration lied! I know I know, it is hard to fathom that an administration that has been nothing but truthful to the American people would allow a liar in its circle of integrity. The Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have lied his ass off when he was being confirmed last year.
The Washington Post Picks it up from here (Bolds, as always are mine).
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) charged yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales misled the Senate during his confirmation hearing a year ago when he appeared to try to avoid answering a question about whether the president could authorize warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens.
In a letter to the attorney general yesterday, Feingold demanded to know why Gonzales dismissed the senator’s question about warrantless eavesdropping as a "hypothetical situation" during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January 2005. At the hearing, Feingold asked Gonzales where the president’s authority ends and whether Gonzales believed the president could, for example, act in contravention of existing criminal laws and spy on U.S. citizens without a warrant.
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. Feingold’s aides developed the 2005 questions based on privacy advocates’ concerns about broad interpretations of executive power.
Liar! He avoided this, he lied to the Senate, he lied to Americans. As he stood there and said "hypothetical situation" when in fact he knew it was NOT just hypothetical, it was a real thing, and he knew it!
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