Three Questions for Gonzales

To follow up on my last post, the excellent group at Think Progress have put together three questions Attorney General Alberto Gonzales must answer tomorrow:

1. Why did you mislead the Judiciary Committee about Bush's warrantless surveillance during your confirmation hearing last year?

2. If you are so confident that this program is legal, why don't you let the FISA court review it and make an independent legal judgement?

3. Can you guarantee this program has never -- either intentionally or unintentionally -- captured communications of political opponents or journalists?

Remember, Bush is spying on his political opposition, and possibly even journalists.  He's keeping the program entirely secret, with no oversite by any court of legislative body.  And his Attorney General lied about it to the Senate during his confirmation hearings.

If he won't put his secret spying program to the FISA court or any sort of legal test, we can be fairly sure he's using it for political ends.  Just like Nixon.  So these questions are critical tomorrow.



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These are wonderful questions to ask Alberto.  Especially under oath.

We'll be watching, Senators . . . your jobs are on the line.


by Antifa on Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 06:45:25 AM EST

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He's NOT under oath!  Unreal -- or should I say surreal.


by JayW on Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 10:25:35 AM EST

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Who decided Gonzales would not be under oath? What's the point if he can just lie his ass off?


by Gary Boatwright on Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 01:26:54 PM EST
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Specter and the Republicans.  The Dems made a show of it at the beginning -- appealed the unilateral decision of the committee chair but all the Repblicans backed the ruling of the chair by roll call vote.  The chair voted for Brownback (I think) by proxy!  At that point someone (Durbin maybe) challeged the proxy vote -- Specter hemmed and hawed about decorum and that he had the votes if the Dems insisted and the Dems on the committee gave in.  Specter also made the outrageous claim that he asked Gonzalez if he was ok with being sworn in, Albert said yes, but he made a chair's decision not to put him through the humiliation (or some such pathetic suggestion that being sworn in isn't necessary because he's a good guy and we all know it -- I'm going to try that the next time I'm in court).


by JayW on Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 01:45:25 PM EST
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3. Can you guarantee this program has never -- either intentionally or unintentionally -- captured communications of political opponents or journalists?

Kind of like Sen. Kennedy accidentally got on the no fly list. I've got another question. Was this program in place during the 2004 election? Did they accidentally spy on Kerry?


by Gary Boatwright on Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 01:28:06 PM EST


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