Give Me Liberty or Give Me Gonzales!

[Demeter]

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/8/2/15642/60263


We're about to lose focus on the key issue behind a Bush administration scandal. Again.

Discussion of the Valerie Plame affair largely centered on what White House official had leaked a CIA agent's identity and covert status, who had authorized the leak, and who was lying or refusing to talk to protect whoever it was who authorized the leak and leaked it. What really mattered--the extent to which the White House had gone to preserve the Niger Uranium hoax and save its justification for invading Iraq--got lost in the hoopla.

Similarly, the ado over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury in front of Congress is masking a more vital concern: we still don't know what Bush is up to with his National Security Agency surveillance program and if there is any congressional or judiciary oversight of it whatsoever.

Don't get me wrong. I'd like to see 'Fredo swing in the breeze as much as anybody. To a great extent, he's as responsibility as anybody for Mr. Bush's disregard of our Constitution's Bill of Rights, but impeaching or punishing Gonzales, by itself, won't restore those rights to us.

[presspeal]

1. Bush never gives up his 'decider' role,

so no freedom for you. Now Gonzales we might get.