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January 31, 2006
Gonzales Lies to Congress
The Washington Post reported today that Russ Feingold is charging Gonzales mislead Congress during his confirmation hearings for Attorney General (WaPo)
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......
Gonzales was White House counsel at the time the program began and has since acknowledged his role in affirming the president's authority to launch the surveillance effort. Gonzales is scheduled to testify Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the program's legal rationale.
One should remember that the administration's strategy is based on achieving particular ends irrespective of means. Truth, and law, are used or dismissed, depending on their value in scoring. Too many times over the past five years we see where the President and his administration interprets the law they way they want. They are merely tools to use to further political gains, without any other inherent value. Gonzales just followed the administration game plan, nothing more, nothing less.
Posted by Chip Spear at January 31, 2006 2:48 PM
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