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"Mr. Attorney General," Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said at one point, "I'm getting the impression this administration picks and chooses what it's subject to." Senators asked directly if opening first-class mail or listening to calls beginning and ending inside the U.S. without notifying a court...
The NSA performs its own oversight, said Gonzales. The program, he argued, is run by professional intelligence officers, and the NSA Inspector General reviews the program to be sure the agency is not listening in on the conversations of unsuspecting citizens. Also, he added, the program itself, which monitors only...
The NSA wiretaps were performed without obtaining the warrants beforehand required by the law that governs eavesdropping on foreign agents, in part, because the process is "cumbersome and burdensome," said Gonzales. Convinced that it wasn't necessary, the Bush Administration did not ask Congress to streamline the procedures to perform...
Unlike Republican colleagues Orrin Hatch of Utah or John Cornyn of Texas, Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania didn't easily accept that rationale. He expressed his skepticism early on, telling Gonzales that federal law has a "forceful and blanket prohibition against any electronic surveillance without a court order"; he even...
Kevin Griffey, a 27-year-old mechanical engineer from San Diego, Calif., interrupted the proceedings midway through the day by jumping up and calling Gonzales, at the top of his lungs, a "lazy fascist." Griffey, who was subsequently escorted from the hearing, had attended a protest at the White House...