Monday, February 06, 2006

What Gonzalez Said

Gonzales Defends Legality of Surveillance

Monday's hearing got off to a rocky start when Republicans and Democrats disagreed over whether Gonzales should be sworn in. Democrats said he should, but Specter said it wasn't necessary. . . . . He wasn't.

"My answers would be the same whether I was under oath or not," Gonzales told the panel.

I'm sure Gonzales was telling the truth there, but that's not the point, Boffo! The point in swearing someone in is in case they should lie, they will go to jail for a long time!

Kennedy said the eavesdropping program could actually weaken national security, raising the prospect that terror suspects could go free if courts rule evidence collected from such surveillance to be tainted.

"We don't believe prosecutions are going to be jeopardized because of this program," Gonzales told Kennedy.


That's because you don't bother to prosecute them, you just go ahead with the torturing.

Gonzales argued that Congress did, in fact, authorize the president in September 2001 to use military force in the war on terror.

I'm sure that Congress had no idea that the president wanted to spy on us, especially since he reiterated and underlined the idea very clearly during the 2004 election:

He said, "Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so." He Lied.

4 Comments:

Blogger andi said...

yeah i heard the headline on NPR monday morning - gonzales to testify to the senate judiciary committee on wiretapping. this is one of the many times i had to really focus on my breathing lest i frighten the dear child in my backseat, leaving her with the impression that mommie is a raving lunatic.

yet another insane waste of taxpayer money. what a freaking joke. what are the odds that gonzales is going to tell the truth? but, you know, it'll sound good. and it will be enough that those who still hang on to their unthinking idolatry of the bush administration can keep hanging on for another few months, years, whatever.

(insert profanity here)

oh how i could lose myself in pages of invective...

10:24 AM, February 07, 2006  
Blogger Missouri Mule said...

Yeah, look's like the perfect time to hitch up our pants. It's gonna get deep, fer sure.

You gotta give it to Kennedy. He is never apologetic for preaching to the choir.
Or as I like to think of it, as energizing the base, and it's just as important for progessives as for the right-wing nuts.

1:48 PM, February 07, 2006  
Blogger oldwhitelady said...

I was going to say something similar to what Missouri Mule said. Great minds think alike, and all that...

Kennedy seems to one of the good guys, if there are any left in DC.

10:40 PM, February 07, 2006  
Blogger SB Gypsy said...

The Republicans seem to be sweating it, Specter and Wilson, both Repub, are standing up - so far...

7:17 AM, February 09, 2006  

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