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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 12:13 AM
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Republicans voted to allow Bush to continue breaking the law.
Edited on Wed Mar-08-06 12:14 AM by ProSense
Wonder what he's going to say?

Gonzales May Be Recalled on Eavesdropping


By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
Mon Mar 6, 9:47 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' written answers to questions about the Bush administration's eavesdropping program may require him to testify a second time before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel's Republican chairman said Monday.

"There is a suggestion in his letter there are other classified intelligence programs that are currently under way," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., told reporters.

The comments from the moderate Republican come as the Bush administration is trying to quell criticism of its surveillance operations and work with the Senate on legislation that would write the program into law.

In a letter to Specter last week, Gonzales clarified his testimony in a half dozen areas covered in a daylong Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Feb. 6.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060307/ap_on_go_co/eavesdropping
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LastLiberal in PalmSprings Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 01:32 AM
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1. Gonzo didn't 'testify' the first time.
By definition, testimony involves a statement made while under oath. Unless Specter has a change of heart -- or the Dems grow some balls and walk out en masse -- it'll be the same old song and dance.

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