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...That is doubtful. But Gonzales heard plenty of what the Senators had to say. When Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, suggested the former White House Counsel had been less than truthful during his Attorney General confirmation hearings a year ago for saying that a question about warrantless wiretapping was "hypothetical," Gonzales remained firm; the question was indeed hypothetical, he retorted, because Feingold had asked him whether he thought the President could authorize eavesdropping "in violation...
...sharpest questioning during the hearings will likely come from Sen. Russel D. Feingold, D-Wis. Feingold, a fellow HLS alum, who is angry about what he considers misleading testimony from Gonzales during the attorney general’s confirmation hearing...
...During the hearing Feingold had asked Gonzales if the president, as commander in chief, could “authorize warrantless searches of Americans’ homes and wiretaps of their conversations in violation of the criminal and foreign intelligence surveillance statutes of this country.” Gonzales, who knew of the NSA program’s existence as White House counsel, denied that the administration was engaging in any illegal wiretapping and that they were discussing a “hypothetical situation...
...tersely-worded letter, Feingold asked Gonzales to “be prepared to discuss” his previous testimony, writing that “[i]n light of recent revelations that the President specifically authorized wiretapping of Americans and did so years prior to your confirmation hearing, I find [your] testimony misleading, and deeply troubling...
...will expect a full explanation at the hearing,” Feingold wrote...