Comey’s Revelations Suggest Either Gonzales Is Lying Or More Spying Programs Exist

[kpete]

Comey’s Revelations Suggest Either Gonzales Is Lying Or More Spying Programs Exist
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faces new legal problems after yesterday’s testimony of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey.

In a 2006 hearing, when Sen. Chuck Schumer asked him about Comey’s objections to the NSA wiretapping program, Gonzales denied there was any “serious disagreement about the program“.

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Gonzales’ answer suggests two possibilities.

1) Comey’s objections apply to the NSA warrantless wiretapping program that Gonzales was discussing. If so, then Gonzales quite likely made serious mis-statements under oath. And Gonzales was deeply and personally involved in the meeting at Ashcroft’s hospital bed, so he won’t be able to claim “I forgot.”

2) Perhaps Comey’s objections applied to a different domestic spying program. That has a big advantage for Gonzales — he wasn’t lying under oath. But then we would have senior Justice officials confirming that other “programs” exist for domestic spying, something the Administration has never previously stated.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/16/swire-on-gonzales/

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. I think Gonzales is brain dead. Or he never had a brain.

Or he has done too much acid.

The man is a complete idiot.

[LiberalFighter]

4. It is not a matter of Gonzales being brain dead

It is a matter of a scumbag that has no regards for the law. He would kill his mother or grandmother to further any evil plan.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. I don't know about that - but he sure doesn't seem to know anything

about anything.

And he sure turned on McNulty in a hurry, didn't he? He is really a piece of work.

[williesgirl]

2. Get Gonzo in front of the committee, under oath, and ask SPECIFIC questions, not general

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[Marie26]

3. Gonzales was always very careful

to refer to it only as "this program" in his Senate testimony. "This program doesn't eavesdrop on domestic conversations," etc. He's doing this so that he doesn't have to reveal the many, many other spying programs Bushco have. That's why he always had that smug little look on his face - he was thinking about all the things he knows that the public does not.

[Blaze Diem]

5. To George, little Gonzo is just a

pet.

[Frustratedlady]

6. They surely had a "program" to listen in on senators/reps, as well as...

the media. This hospital visit was shortly before the 2004 election, wasn't it? I'm sure I read somewhere that the media KNEW they were victims of this administration's spying program...or am I getting senile?

Tapping terrorists' phone lines or connections to their U.S. counterparts wouldn't be any problem for Congress, but tapping into their offices/homes and/or the media would sure set off a firestorm.

[Breeze54]

8. It's not an 'either/or' scenario.

He is lying and there are more domestic spying programs!

:grr:

[bobthedrummer]

9. Kick