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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Gonzales caught lying to Congress?

This is a piece by the now infamous hit artist John Solomon, so I'd like to see it under someone else's byline before I'm sure, but this does seem to indicate that Gonzales may have lied to Congress.
As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse," Gonzales told senators on April 27, 2005.

Six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. It was one of at least half a dozen reports of legal or procedural violations that Gonzales received in the three months before he made his statement to the Senate intelligence committee, according to internal FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.


The Gonzales defense is that he never read the reports.

2 Comments:

  • Don't nobody in this ADDministration read reports? What are we wasting the paper for?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:23 PM  

  • That's really a good question. They're only a paper trail.

    Reports have not been kind to these guys.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 8:35 PM  

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