SF Chronicle: Where Does Spying End?

[Mark E. Smith]

ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING? You've got to be kidding.

That was the basic message by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he aggressively defended the administration's secret surveillance program that brazenly circumvents the judicial-review requirements of the 1978 Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act.

But Gonzales' soothing reassurances merely succeeded in raising additional doubts about whether the administration believes there are any limits on a presidents' powers -- and what other surveillance programs it may already have instituted.

Over and over again, Gonzales said he was unable to provide "operational details" about the administrations "terrorist surveillance program."

Gonzales "bobbing and weaving," as Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., described it, began at the opening gavel. He responded evasively to a question from Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the Judiciary Committee chair, as to why the administration had not asked the secret court set up by FISA for its opinion about the legality of the administration's surveillance program.

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[SharonAnn]

1. I got tired just watching Gonzales "bob and weave". It would have

been easier for him to tell the truth, the whole truth, and thing but the truth.

However, then we'd know what he and the evil * have been up to and we'd rise up in outrage.