TPM: Did Gonzales Mislead Congress about NSA Program?

[Coexist]

TPM Muckraker asks a good question

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Their statement contains this: "when the Attorney General was forced to testify before the House Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago, he misled the Committee about the existence of the program."

Here's what they're referring to. On April 6, 2006, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before the House Judiciary Committee, and in one exchange, Rep. Gerald Nadler (D-NY) tried to nail him down:

NADLER: Number two, can you assure us that there is no warrantless surveillance of calls between two Americans within the United States?
GONZALES: That is not what the president has authorized.

NADLER: Can you assure us that it's not being done?

GONZALES: As I indicated in response to an earlier question, no technology is perfect.

NADLER: OK.

GONZALES: We do have minimization procedures in place...

NADLER: But you're not doing that deliberately?

GONZALES: That is correct.

[partylessinOhio]

1. Gonzales made a partnership with the DevilBush. He needs to go too.

[Coexist]

4. Our ATTORNEY GENERAL is fudging like a pol.

This administration is ugly, ugly, ugly.

[HereSince1628]

2. Well at least not in the context of THE program he was there to discuss

anyway. Gonzo made it pretty clear that there is at least one other domestic surveillance program going on that he wasn't going to comment on at all.

[HereSince1628]

3. sorry about that...

[jaysunb]

5. You're right

and this is it!
He knew then and should be called to account.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Who would have ever thought we'd miss asscroft?

[Kagemusha]

7. To them, it's statistical analysis, not surveillance.

So there.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Gee, Wally, isn't that a felony?

I thought lying to Congress could get you into trouble. Maybe I'm wrong.

[KittyWampus]

9. kick

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. It's tough to call it "testimony" when he wasn't sworn in

As soon as that was tossed, anything and everything he said was not worth the precious hot-air he blew.