Gonzales perjury, Part 2

Ask and you shall receive. 

I don’t think this really surprised anyone.  Now the Bush Administration is on record admitting that there were intelligence programs working alongside the Terrorist Surveillance Program authorized by one of Bush’s executive orders after 9/11. 

The NSA wiretap scandal disclosed by James Risen of the NY Times back in December of 2005 and acknowledged by the Bush administration as the Terrorist Surveillance Program was just one of many other intelligence programs. 

Which fits.  Bush claimed that the TSP only monitored communications where at least one of the targets was a known member of Al Qaeda. 

The evidence, however, pointed to activities which far exceeded this limited scope.  Data-mining, secret agreements with telephone/wireless companies for access to all of their records, federal agents who worked undercover to infiltrate organizations considered to be politically antithetical to Bush Administration policies. 

When I posted about this the other day, I thought it was interesting that in order to save Gonzales’ butt from perjury charges, the Bush Administration would have to disclose at least the existence of other programs. 

Can the apologists continue to pretend that we’re not at the edge of something irrevocably and undeniably unconstitutional here? 

Gonzales perjury?

Maybe not for at least one issue much discussed. 

When he said that the confrontation leading to the infamous hospital visit was not about the NSA wiretapping program disclosed by the President, he probably was not lying. 

It was about another program.  Or intelligence activities.  And the question again is what was so horrifyingly beyond the pale that if continued most of the top officials at the DOJ threatened to resign, including Ashcroft? 

We figure that out and I assure you Watergate will no longer be the standard by which all other presidential abuses are measured.  Whatever that program was it operated for over two years after 9/11. 

Gonzales Perjury Inquiry Coming?

Impeachable offense for the AG? Or yet another domestic spying program being debated? (Both?)