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.