EXCLUSIVE: Gonzales Called to Testify at Congressional NSA Hearings!

[BradBlog]

EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Gonzales Called to Testify at Congressional Hearings on NSA Spying!
Citing Bush Statement that Such Hearings are 'Good for Democracy', Ranking Minority Member of House Judiciary Extends Invitation
Former Deputy AG, Ardent Administration Defender, Architect of Torture Memos, John Yoo Also Called to Testify

In response to George W. Bush's statement yesterday that hearings on the NSA program are "good for democracy," Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), on behalf of the minority members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee, has today sent invitations to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo to testify at planned hearings next Friday on the matter of warrentless NSA spying on United States citizens.

In the letter to Gonzales, obtained by The BRAD BLOG, Conyers quotes from Bush's comments yesterday at a Town Hall Forum in Kentucky in apparent support of such hearings...

COMPLETE LETTERS and FULL STORY
(along with complete 14-page memo from former CIA Counsel Director Jeffrey Smith):
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002269.htm


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[rodeodance]

1. what is the exclusive. We heard this several days ago.

[sabra]

2. this is for Conyers hearing, not Specter's....

[AValdoux]

3. Where's Ashcroft?

That what bugs me. He was the attorney general when all this crap started. Also why wasn't Tom Ridge called to testify during the Katrina hearings. He's the one who reduced FEMA to its current ineffective joke status.


AValdoux

[Little Star]

6. I saw him somewhere on tv this week and I

think they said that he is a lobbyist now?

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. Running a lobbying firm, I believe.

[NMDemDist2]

4. i won't hold my breath waiting for him to show up

Conyers needs subpeona power, which means he needs a majority in 2007

[rainbow4321]

11. And even if he does

he will be spewing what chimp said...as soon as we get to hear about a nugget of wrong doing it will be "uh, uh, that is helping the enemy...NEXT!"


http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17799623%255E1702,00.html

Bush said hearings were "good for democracy" if they did not help the enemy.

"Just so long as the hearings, as they explore whether or not I have the prerogative to make the decision I made doesn't tell the enemy what we're doing – see that's the danger," Bush said.

[Malva Zebrina]

5. Letters from Conyers will be promptly thrown into the trash can

and will be laughed at.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. He who laughs last laughts longest.

[Malva Zebrina]

9. sorry, just a little bit cynical at this point

eom

[leesa]

10. Yet another invitation to Gonzales to lie his ass off...so what?

Let's get the fucker under oath and on trial.

[drfresh]

12. Get Ashcroft in there too!! -nt