Gonzales Is A Liar
Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez sent the Senate Judiciary Committe a letter yesterday to “clarify” his testimony — you remember, when the committee’s Republicans voted not to swear him in — from last month. It’s a fantastic legalistic way of lying to Congress and the American people.
Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December.
In a letter yesterday to senators in which he asked to clarify his Feb. 6 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales also seemed to imply that the administration’s original legal justification for the program was not as clear-cut as he indicated three weeks ago.
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At least one constitutional scholar who testified before the committee yesterday said in an interview that Gonzales appeared to be hinting that the operation disclosed by the New York Times in mid-December is not the full extent of eavesdropping on U.S. residents conducted without court warrants.
Let’s say it all again: Gonzales is a liar. George W. Bush is a liar.
Glenn Greenwald lays it all out: “The NSA scandal now clearly includes interception of domestic communications, perjury and presidential lying.”
