Gonzales calls it confusion; Specter calls it 'misleading' NO LIES HERE. MOVE ON!

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Defender of Gonzales and Bush states Administration's new "fallback" position. Gonzales is "misleading."

Gonzales calls it confusion; Specter calls it 'misleading'
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/02/gonzales.congress/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said he's not satisfied with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' attempt to clarify his testimony about no-warrant surveillance. ....

"He did not tell the whole truth," Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, said Wednesday.......

Specter did not accept the clarification. He disagreed that the attorney general had "tried to provide frank answers," and chastised Gonzales' apology for causing confusion.

"It's more than confusion, it's misleading," Specter said. "He did not tell the whole truth." .....

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Gonzales Offers a Defense to Senate Panel
By JAMES RISEN
Published: August 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/washington/02gonzales.html

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales offered a narrowly drawn defense of his recent Congressional testimony on Wednesday, saying he had been truthful in denying that there had been serious disagreements within the Bush administration about the National Security Agency’s program of wiretapping without warrants.

In a letter to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Gonzales said a dispute between the Justice Department and the White House in March 2004 involved other N.S.A. surveillance activities, not that domestic eavesdropping program. He said the White House first called the eavesdropping the Terrorist Surveillance Program after it was publicly disclosed in December 2005 and confirmed by President Bush.

The attorney general has been under fire from Congressional Democrats for what they describe as misleading testimony both last week and in 2006, and some lawmakers have threatened him with a perjury investigation.

In his letter on Wednesday, he acknowledged that his testimony might have been confusing to those who did not realize that he was parsing his words so carefully. .....