AG is asked to testify on spy program
By Douglass K. Daniel, Associated Press | January 9, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, said yesterday that he has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to testify during open hearings on the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
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Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said Gonzales's testimony is being sought because he is the main spokesman for the administration's position.
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, a prominent conservative on the committee, said he is troubled by the legal arguments the administration has presented for establishing the National Security Agency program.
President Bush has said that a congressional resolution that has authorized him to use force against Iraq allows him to order spying within the United States without a warrant.
Brownback said: ''There was no discussion in anything that I was around that gave the president a broad surveillance authority with that resolution."
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