Thursday, January 26, 2006

Gonzales calls domestic spying 'both necessary and lawful'

This jackass will pull anything out of his ass to justify norrible policies, won't he?

Gonzales calls domestic spying 'both necessary and lawful'
The New York Times

WASHINGTON - Ramping up the administration's defense of its domestic eavesdropping program, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday invoked the lessons of George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt in justifying President Bush's broad power to wage war against terrorism.

Gonzales, a key architect of the surveillance program, said that the operation was ''both necessary and lawful'' and that he believed any president would have taken the steps Bush did.

''I think it would be irresponsible to do otherwise,'' he said in a speech at Georgetown University Law Center.

Gonzales' address, along with seven television appearances Monday night and Tuesday morning, was part of an orchestrated effort by the Bush administration to recast the debate on the National Security Agency program as one of national security rather than civil liberties. Gen. Michael Hayden, the nation's second-ranking intelligence official, made an unusual public speech about the program on Monday.

The president is also scheduled to visit the security agency in Fort Meade, Md., today to reassure employees whose normally secret activities have come under scrutiny.

With polls showing the public evenly split about the eavesdropping program, Gonzales - like Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney before him - said in his speech that he welcomed a ''worthy debate'' over the limits of presidential power.

More than two dozen students in the audience responded by turning their backs on Gonzales and standing stone-faced before live television cameras for the duration of his half-hour speech.

Posted by crimnos @ 9:24 AM

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Yeah, it's like Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas saying that all the doctrine of a "unitary executive" means is that we should only have one President.

What a psycho.

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