FBI Head Contradicts Attorney General's Testimony On Surveillance

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By VOA News
27 July 2007

The director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has contradicted sworn testimony by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about a secret U.S. surveillance program.

FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday that the legality of the surveillance program was the subject of intense debate among justice officials before it was publicly revealed in 2005. The program allowed wiretapping of some international phone calls originating or terminating in the United States.

Gonzales, who is Mueller's boss, has testified that the program prompted no disagreements within the administration.

This is the latest blow to the attorney general's struggle to stay in office. Senate lawmakers have been calling on him to step down over the legality of the surveillance program and his role in the firings of several federal prosecutors last year.

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