It’s a steroid versioin of the dog ate my homework…. and then threw it up.
“I recognize that the use of the term ‘Terrorist Surveillance Program’
and my shorthand reference to the ‘program’ publicly ‘described by the President’
may have created confusion, particularly for those who are
knowledgeable about the NSA activities authorized in the presidential order
described by the DNI [director of national intelligence], and who may be accustomed
to thinking of them or referring to them together as a single NSA ‘program,’
” Gonzales wrote.
May have created confusion?
Yathink? Leahy was not amused.
“The attorney general’s legalistic explanation of his misleading testimony
under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week is not what one
should expect from the top law enforcement officer of the United States,”
Leahy said.“It is time for full candor to enforce the law and promote justice,
rather than word parsing.”Leahy said that Gonzales has until the end of this week to correct and supplement
his testimony.“I hope he will take that opportunity to clarify the many issues on
which he appears not to have been forthcoming and to tell the Senate Judiciary
Committee and the American people the whole truth,” Leahy said.
Good luck with that.
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