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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